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LITERARY LANDMARKS 
OF BOSTON 

A VISITOR'S GUIDE 

TO POINTS OF LITERARY INTEREST 

IN AND ABOUT BOSTON 

v' BY 

LINDSAY SWIFT 




HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 

BOSTON, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO 

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COPYRIGHT, 1922 

BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. 

Copyright, 1903, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 



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INTRODUCTION 

There are many good reasons for coming to Boston, 
whether for pleasure or for profit. In summer it is an 
excellent watering-place; many beautiful and comfort- 
able spots are within easy reach, by steamboat and steam 
or electric cars. Though many monuments are now only 
memories, it still holds in its keeping some historical 
landmarks dear to all Americans. Its older parts are 
quaint, unusual, and often venerable. 

Its intellectual repute is one of the influences which 
draw visitors hither. Too much may have been said 
about it, but something has to be said of the fact that, in 
proportion to its size, it is a city of great facilities and op- 
portunities. It has an extraordinary educational equip- 
ment, especially of the higher sort; its musical and artistic 
advantages are generally recognized, but in nothing is it 
stronger than in the domain of letters. Within the metro- 
politan scope of the city, there are probably two million 
and a half books available in a more or less public way 
to any one whose search is a serious one. This is the 
practical side of the situation, and it is well understood 
by those who come here, as many do, to read and study. 
Tradition and "atmosphere" also play their part. 
Whether by accident or by a normal social and intellec- 
tual development, Boston at one time drew to itself from 
without and produced from its own resources a remark- 
able group of literary men and women, who would have 
given distinction to any civilized centre. While it is true 
that this golden age has passed, much of its unforgettable 
renown still exists. In no provincial spirit this part of 
the country is proud of the memory of these unusual 
intelligences, and the rest of the country is not ungen- 
erous in paying tribute to their worth. All that once 



iv INTRODUCTION 

pertained to their daily lives and habits is of vital inter- 
est to-day. 

It has seemed desirable, therefore, to indicate in com- 
pact form the local habitations and the names of the 
men and women who have helped, or who are now help- 
ing, through their profession of letters, to make the city 
of their birth or adoption more memorable. Some of 
the names are so famous as in a measure to obscure the 
modest reputation of the rest, yet it is proper to make 
no discriminations, and to furnish a practicable index to 
the literary homes, as such, of Boston and its vicinity. 
For a more extended or critical description of the haunts 
of celebrities, reference should be had to books which 
treat the subject in another fashion. 

Parts of Boston are still old and full of flavor, but as has 
been suggested, a great deal, once charming and notable, 
has been swept away by the growth of population and of 
commerce. The North End and the monuments of the 
few literary worthies once centred there have almost com- 
pletely disappeared, while changes, culminating in the 
Great Fire of 1872, wiped out or occasioned the demo- 
lition of whole sections once inhabited by the choicest 
names in Boston's social and literary history. This ex- 
planation is necessary to account for the absence of many 
important persons naturally to be looked for in a guide- 
book of this sort. No mention is made of any one unless 
there exists some building identified with his life. This 
will explain the apparent omission of some important 
landmarks, as for instance the supposed site of Benjamin 
Franklin's birthplace on Milk Street. The publishers 
and the compiler are aware that in this, the first attempt 
of just this kind, omissions and positive errors must 
be discovered. The renumbering of some of the older 
streets has been a serious obstacle to accuracy. Criticism 
and suggestion will be heartily welcome. 

The arrangement is self-explanatory for the most part, 
first by districts, then by streets; but in less thickly set- 



INTRODUCTION v 

tied sections this has not always been necessary. The 
dates in parentheses usually following a name indicate the 
birth and death of a person. The period of residence in a 
particular house is briefly mentioned. The principal in- 
formation regarding a person who has lived in more than 
one house is entered under the most important or inter- 
esting place of residence. 

Sweeping as has been the demolition of earlier residen- 
tial Boston, the last earthly homes of many notable men 
are still to be found in the ancient burying-grounds, and 
in particular, the Granary, the King's Chapel, and the 
Copp's Hill. In these spots, quiet in spite of the turmoil 
about them, are the houses which the First Clown too 
confidently said "last till doomsday." Such memorials 
do not fairly come within the compass of this work. 

All roads lead to Rome, except in Boston, where they 
lead to, or certainly from. Park Street Church, the conven- 
ient centre of the city's life. For many years the corner 
of Tremont and Park streets has been a rendezvous and a 
point of departure, especially for visiting strangers. 

Before starting, it is germane to our purpose to glance 
at Boston Common, repressing a natural desire to accept 
such a fascinating legend as that, for instance, William 
Pynchon^s book, "The Meritorious Price of Christ's Re- 
demption," was burned here by the common hangman in 
1 651; but recalling one feature which must not be for- 
gotten, — the "Long Path," which runs from Joy Street 
to Boylston Street, and which is made immortal in "The 
Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." 

One comment arises, as this little "progress" begins, 
which is obvious indeed, and yet in a way unavoidable. 
The most fruitful part of the journey lies over Beacon 
Hill and through the West End. There are some splen- 
did residences in Boston, and some of the authors here 
enumerated live in them, but he who visits the spots 
made most significant through literary achievement 



vi INTRODUCTION 

cannot fail to be struck with tlieir extreme simplicity, 
reserve, and even austerity. 

The compiler of this work, Lindsay Swift, a distin- 
guished representative of Literary Boston, and a man of 
eminent scholarship, passed away on September ii, 1921. 
For forty-three years he was associated with the Boston 
Public Library. His home was at $88 Park Street, West 
Roxbury, where he delighted in a beautiful garden. An 
authority on literary and historical matters, men-of- 
letters from all parts of the country turned to him for 
information and instruction. In his passing Literacy 
Boston has sustained an irreparable loss 

The publishers are indebted to Miss Caroline Ticknor 
for the complete revision of this booklet. 



LITERARY LANDMARKS OF 
BOSTON 

PARK STREET 

Park Street Church, important strategic point as it is 
in Boston's topography, is without especial significance 
in this tour, unless we are pleased to remember that Dr. 
Edward Everett Hale, half skeptically, liked to think that 
as a boy, one "Independence Day," he heard from the 
gallery in this edifice the singing of ''America" for the first 
time. Here, too, Joseph Cook, nearly fifty years ago, 
began to attract a gathering which presently became a 
multitude (so great as soon to fill Tremont Temple), 
eager to hear this stalwart apologist of conservative 
orthodoxy meet the oncoming tide of German and Eng- 
lish philosophic and scientific thought. His books were 
once as popular as his "Monday Lectures." Cook was 
to orthodox what Theodore Parker had been, twenty 
years earher, in Music Hall, to radical Boston. A few 
years before Mr. Cook, Park Street Church had been 
filled to overflowing by the Rev. William Henry Harrison 
Murray, who, young, vigorous, and eloquent, also in 
his own manner espoused the strait way of Congrega- 
tionalism. The charms of outdoor life, of the gun, the 
rod, the pacer, found a place in Murray's muscular Chris- 
tianity, and his books were popular in their day. ("Ad- 
ventures in the Wilderness," "The Perfect Horse," "Adi- 
rondack Tales.") 

No. 2. John Lothrop Motley. This was the historian's last Bos- 
ton home (1868-1869) before he went as United States Minister to 
England, where he died (1877). See also Chestnut and Walnut 
streets. 



2 PARK STREET 

No. 4. Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), the son of President Quincy, 
and mayor of Boston. {" Figures of the Past.") Houghton Miflain 
Co. have been here since 1880. This long-estabHshed house enjoys 
the distinction of being the sole authorized publishers of the works 
of the most eminent American authors, including Aldrich, Emerson, 




PARK STREET 



Harte, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Thoreau, 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Fiske. By its succession to the 
earlier houses of Ticknor & Fields, and Hurd & Houghton, it allied 
its business interests with the reputations of that brilliant assem- 
blage of genius which first gave our native literature solidarity and 
power. The manufacturing plant of Houghton Llifflin Co. is The 
Riverside Press, Cambridge. 

No. 5. Josiah Quincy (i 772-1864), the elder, and the President 
of Harvard University (1829-1845), made this his winter home dur- 
ing the last seven years of his hfe. (" History of Harvard Univer- 
sity; " " History of the Boston Athenseum; " " Municipal History of 
Boston.") 

No. 8. The Union Club, numbering among its members some of 
the most distinguished names in Boston's literary annals, now oc- 
cupies the former home of Abbott Lawrence. 

No. 9. George Ticknor (1791-1871). Here Ticknor, who with 



BEACON STREET 3 

Edward Everett was among the earliest of "traveled" and culti- 
vated Americans, wrote his "History of Spanish Literature," from 
materials collected in his own library, which on his death went to 
the Public Library. The house is sadly changed from its early im- 
pressiveness and beauty, yet it is still a worthy monument. Lafay- 
ette stayed here in 1824, and here, in one part or another of this 
fourfold structure, once lived Christopher Gore, when governor, 
Malbone, the miniaturist, Samuel Dexter, the eminent lawyer, and 
from here was buried Fisher Ames, the Federalist orator. A famous 
house indeed! 



BEACON STREET 

The charms of Beacon Street explain themselves very 
well. At no point is it more inviting than at Joy or Wal- 
nut Street, where one may get the beauty of the Common, 
and the gentle curve to the foot of the hill beyond Charles 
Street, where it begins to lengthen out on its course to 
the Brookline Hills beyond. The sense of nearness to 
such homes as Prescott's and Motley's does not diminish 
one's satisfaction. 

No. 10 1-2. The Boston Athenaetmi (estabhshed in 1807). The 
father of R. W. Emerson was one of its founders. It is a proprie- 
tary hbrary, and contains over 200,000 volumes. The exterior is 
one of the most dignified and impressive in Boston, and the interior 
is newly remodeled. Librarian, Charles K. Bolton (see Brookline). 

No. 49. Edmund Quincy (1808-1877). In the thirties, but his 
home was at " Bankside," in Dedham, where he lived and died, 
" learned in those arts that make a gentleman," to use the words of 
his friend, Lowell. Concerned in all good works as a citizen, es- 
pecially as an opponent of slavery, he also wrote several stories. 
His life of his father, Josiah Quincy (17 7 2-1864) (see Park Street) 
is a model for charm and elegance, while his novel, " Wensley," was 
said by Whittier to be the " most readable book of its kind since 
Hawthorne's 'Blithedale Romance.'" 

No. 55. William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859). From 1845 to 
1859. His reputation was established when he came to this house, 
but here he wrote the "History of the Conquest of Peru," and 
" History of the Reign of Philip the Second." No other traces of 
Prescott's home life in Boston are now in existence. He is buried 
under St. Paul's Church, on Tremont Street. 



BEACON STREET 




HOME OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT 
BEACON STREET 

No. 71. Philip Henry Savage (1868-1899). From 1896 to 1898. 
Son of Rev. Minot J. Savage (see St. Botolph Street), and a minor 
poet of some note and promise. (" First Poems and Fragments; " 
" Poems.") 

No. 132. Clara Endicott Sears (1863- ). Miss Sears has re- 
stored and preserved the old house called " Fruitlands" at Harvard, 
Mass., Bronson Alcott's Transcendental Experiment of a New Eden. 
She has also moved the oldest Shaker House from the Harvard 
Shaker village and placed it near Fruitlands. Both houses are filled 
with the original furniture and libraries and are open to the public 
from one o'clock to six o'clock p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 
Saturdays, from June to October. These houses are on Miss Sears's 
estate at Harvard, Mass. (Prospect Hill). At the Shaker House the 
Shaker Industries are exhibited — all very old and authentic. 
("Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands;" ''The Unfurling of the Flag;" 
"The Bill-Singer;" etc.) 

No. 140. Edith Robinson (1858- ). A novehst. ("A Forced 
Acquaintance;" ".Penhallow Tales;" " A Loyal Little Maid.") 

No. 141. Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903). Writer and soci- 
ologist. ("Wealth against Commonwealth;" "Labor Copartner- 
ship;" " Newest England.") 

No. 145. Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894). His Boston home 
from 187 1 to 1873. See also Marlborough Street. 



BEACON STREET 5 

No. 159. Francis Cabot Lowell (1S55-1911). United States 
District Judge. (" Joan of Arc") 

No. 212. Mary Elizabeth (McGrath) Blake (1840-1907). From 
i8g6. A frequent contributor of prose and verse to various maga- 
zines. Once known widely in journalism by her signature, M. E. B. 
(" Youth in Twelve Centuries;" " Verses along the Way;" etc.) 

No. 237. Francis Amasa Walker (1840- 1 89 7). Historian, econo- 
mist, soldier. President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy for many years and until his death. (" History of the Second 
Army Corps;" "Political Economy;" "The Making of the Na- 
tion;" etc.) 

No. 239. Henry Williamson Haynes ( 1 831-19 1 2). Archaeologist 
and ethnologist; contributor to scientific publications. 

No. 241. Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910). This, Mrs. Howe's 
Boston home, has been often occupied also by her daughter, Maud 
(Howe) Elliott (1855- ), wife of John Elliott, the artist, and by 
her nephew, F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909), both of whom had, 
however, Hved for some years in the West and abroad respectively, 
making occasional visits to Mrs. Howe. ("Margaret Fuller;" 
"Reminiscences;" " From Sunset Ridge: Poems Old and New;" 
etc.) See also Chestnut Street. 

No. 289. James Frothingham Hunnewell (1832-1910). Lived 
formerly in Charlestown; an accomplished student and historian. 
(" The Lands of Scott; " " The Imperial Island: England's Chronicle 
in Stone;" " A Century of Town Life.") 

No. 296. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). From 1871 to 
his death. His study was in the rear of the house, on the second 
story, looking over the Charles River to Cambridge and beyond. 
(" Writings," in 13 vols.) This was for some time the residence of 
his son. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841- ), of the United 
States Supreme Court. (" Speeches;" and editor of " Kent's Com- 
mentaries.") 

No. 302. William Dean Howells (183 7-1920). From 1885 to 
1887. See also Commonwealth Avenue, Louisburg Square, and 
Cambridge. 

No. 361. Richard Henry Dana, 2d (1815-1882). From 1874 to 
1880. A noted Boston lawyer and writer. (" Two Years before the 
Mast;" " To Cuba and Back;" editor of Wheaton's " Elements of 
International Law.") 

No. 392. James Ford Rhodes (1848- ). Ohio born and reared, 
Mr. Rhodes has of late years found the atmosphere and literary 
resources of Boston favorable to the prosecution of his " History of 
the United States from the Compromise of 1850." 



6 BEACON STREET 

No. 476. Eugenia Brooks Frothingham, niece of Octavius Brooks 
Frothingham. (" The Turn of the Road.") 

No. 502. " The Austerfield." Clara (Erskine) Clement Waters 
(1834-1916). A prolific art-writer and a novelist. ("Stories of 




HOME OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 

BEACON STREET 

(Dr. Holmes in the foreground) 



Art and Artists; " " Saints in Art; " " Charlotte Cushman; " " Elea- 
nor Maitland: A Novel;" etc.) 

No. 528. Dr. Harold Williams (1853- )• A physician who 
has written novels, as well as medical essays. (" Silken Threads;" 
" Mr. and Mrs. Morton.") 

No. 535. " The Charlesgate." Anne Whitney. From 1894 to 
1903. See also Mt. Vernon Street. 

No. 811. Louis C. Elson (1848-1920). Musical critic, lecturer, 
journahst, and writer. ("National Music of America;" " Curi- 



CHESTNUT STREET 7 

osities of Music;" "Shakespeare in Music;" etc.) Here also is 
Arthur Elson. (" Critical History of Opera;" " Orchestral Instru- 
ments and their Use.") 



WALNUT STREET 

No. I. Wendell Phillips (181 1- 1884) was born and lived long in 
this, the first brick house built on Beacon Street. The entrance used 
to be on Beacon Street. As in the case of Sumner, some of Phillips's 
oratory has lived to take its rank in literature. Ellen F. Mason, 
writer and philanthropist, now resides here. 

No. 2. Charles C. Perkins (1823-1886). An art critic and writer 
of note. (" Raphael and Michael Angelo;" " Tuscan Sculptors.") 

No. 7. John Lothrop Motley (18 14-187 7). The childhood home 
of this eminent historian and diplomat; and in its garret Motley, 
Thomas Gold x\ppleton (see Commonwealth Avenue), and Wendell 
Phillips {see above), the closest friends when boys, used to play 
together. ("The Rise of the Dutch Repubhc;" "The History of 
the United Netherlands;" " Life and Death of John of Barneveld;" 
etc.) See also Chestnut and Park streets. 

No. 8. Francis Parkman (1823-1893). From 1856 to 1864. 
Parkman is more closely identified with his house on Chestnut Street. 

No. 10. Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr. (" A Memoir of Robert 
C. Winthrop.") 



CHESTNUT STREET 

Parallel with Beacon Street, and halfway between it 
and Mt. Vernon Street, runs Chestnut Street from Wal- 
nut Street, which cuts across its upper end, down across 
Charles Street, to the river. Lacking some of the rare 
personal distinction of Mt. Vernon Street, and quite with- 
out the air of a chastened Bohemia peculiar to Pinckney 
Street, Chestnut Street has charming qualities of its own, 
as well as memories, social and literary, too choice to be 
forgotten. The numbers run down the hill, as is usual 
on the west side of Beacon Hill. 

No. 8. George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898) formerly lived 
here. (" A Study of Hawthorne; " " Spanish Vistas; " etc. Verses 
and fiction.) Also Rose (Hawthorne) Lathrop (185 1- ), his wife, 



8 CHESTNUT STREET 

and daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (" Some Memories of Haw- 
thorne;" "Along the Shore," verse.) 

No. II. John Lothrop Motley (1814-187 7). About 1848 to 185 1. 
See also Park and Walnut streets. 

No. 12. Charles Gordon Ames (1828-1912). Successor of Rev. 
James Freeman Clarke at the Church of the Disciples. (*' George 
Eliot's Two Marriages;" " Studies of the Inner Kingdom.") 

No. 13. Mrs. John T. Sargent. (" Sketches and Reminiscences 
of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street.") The Radical Club began 
in 1867, and met at Mrs. Sargent's home. Among the members and 
lecturers were Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, Sr., W. H. 
Channing, F. B. Sanborn, T. W. Higginson, C. A. Bartol, F. H. 
Hedge, and Samuel Longfellow. Its complexion was liberal Uni- 
tarianism, but the Radical Club was to Boston a generation ago what 
the so-called Transcendental Club was in the thirties. Here lived 
previously (1863-1865) Mrs. Julia Ward Howe (see also Beacon 
Street). 

No. 17. Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1813-1900). Unitarian clergy- 
man, and one of the longest lived of the early transcendentalists. 
The West Church on Cambridge, corner of Lynde Street, where 
he long preached, is now a branch of the Public Library, and an 
interesting building. Here, too, preached Charles Lowell, the father 
of the poet Lowell. (" Pictures of Europe; " " Radical Problems; " 
'' Principles and Portraits.") 

No. 24. Helen Choate (Pratt) Prince (1857- ). A grand- 
daughter of Rufus Choate. Lives now in France. ("At the Sign 
of the Silver Crescent;" "The Strongest Master;" "A Transat- 
lantic Chatelaine.") 

No. 33. John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881). Lived here during 
1861 while Postmaster of Boston, 1861-1867, then at 5 Louisburg 
Square. See also Cambridge. 

No. 43. Richard Henry Dana (i 787-1879). A founder of the 
"North American Review," one of the early poets and critics of 
American national literature, and a lecturer on Shakespeare. For- 
merly lived at No. 37. (" The Buccaneer, and other Poems;" " The 
Idle Man;" "Poems and Prose Writings.") 

No. 50. Francis Parkman (1823-1893). The home of this emi- 
nent historian for nearly thirty years. (" France and England in 
North America," in 9 vols.; "The Oregon Trail;" etc.) See also 
Walnut Street. 

No. 52. Ralph Adams Cram (1863- ). Architect, author- 
(" The Decadent; " " Church Building, " " Black Spirits and White;'* 
"The Gothic Quest," etc.) 



CHESTNUT STREET 9 

No. 55. Nathaniel Greene (1797-1877). Journalist and editor. 
Also translator from the German and Italian. 

No. 62. Arlo Bates (1850-1918). To 1902. Mr. Bates, besides 
filling the Professorship of English Literature at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology was a poet, and, following Mr. Howells's 




HOME OF FRANCIS I'AKKIMAN 
CHESTNUT STREET 



departure, the resident novelist of Boston life, especially of its ar- 
tistic and Bohemian side. Lived later on Otis Place. ( " The Philis- 
tines; " " The Puritans; " '' Diary of a Saint; " etc.) His wife, Har- 
riet Leonora (Vose) Bates (1856-1886), under the name of "Eleanor 
Putnam," was also an author. 

No. 96. Alice Brown (1857- ). Miss Brown, who has of late 
made her winter home at 11 Pinckney Street, is one of an accom- 
plished group of women who have interpreted with rare delicacy 
the spirit of New England, and in particular its perplexing "con- 
science." (" By Oak and Thorn; " " Meadow Grass; " " Margaret 
Warrener;" "The Mannerings; " " Children of Earth;" drama, won 
Winthrop Amies' $10,000 prize, in 1915.) 



MT. VERNON STREET 



MT. VERNON STREET 

The street runs from the State House down the hill to 
the river. Though lacking uniformity to a degree re- 
markable even in a Boston street, it has, especially from 
Joy Street to Louisburg Square, a pecuHar charm, for it 
is Enghsh enough to be a part of London, and has an 
individual native dignity worthy even of Salem. It is no 
wonder that it has had in the past, and still has, a fas- 
cination for men and women of letters. 

No. 26. Curtis Guild, Sr. (1828-1911). Journalist, editor, writer. 
(*' Over the Ocean; " " Abroad Again; " " Britons and Muscovites; " 
'*A Chat about Celebrities.") 

No. 32. Julia Ward Howe. From 1870 to 1872. See also Bea- 
con and Chestnut streets. 

No. 50. The Club of Odd Volumes, founded in 1890 for liter- 
ary and artistic purposes. Has valuable reference library. 

No. 53. Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. 
Headquarters, with data and memorabiha of Pilgrims. 

No. 57. Charles Francis Adams ( 1 807-1 886). Son of one Presi- 
dent of the United States and grandson of another, he himself was 
Minister to England during the critical period of the Civil War. 
(As Editor: " The Life and Works of John Adams; " " Life and Works 
of John Quincy Adams; " " Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams;" etc.) 

No. 59. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (183 7-1907). From 1884. Poet 
and novelist. (''Prudence Palfrey;" "The Stillwater Tragedy;" 
"Marjorie Daw;" "The Story of a Bad Boy;" and other works; 
" Writings," in 8 vols., 1897.) See also Charles and Pinckney streets. 
Here also lived, earlier, Adam Wallace Thaxter (1832-1864). A 
Boston dramatist and dramatic and literary critic. 

No. 63. This house, for many years the residence of William 
Claflin, a governor of Massachusetts, gets much of its literary at- 
mosphere from the fact that the poet Whittier used to stay here on 
his visits to Boston. Mary Bucklin (Davenport) Claflin (1825- 
1896), wife of Governor Claflin, was herself a writer. ("Personal 
Recollections of Whittier;" "Brampton Sketches;" "Real Happen- 
ings.") 

No. 67. Cornelia Warren (1857-1921). Till 1902. Philan- 
thropist, business woman, and writer. ("Miss Wilton.") 

No. 76. Margaret Wade (Campbell) Deland (1857- ). Nov- 



MT. VERNON STREET ii 

elist and poet. Mrs. Deland became famous on the publication of 
"John Ward, Preacher." ("The Old Garden and Other Verses;" 
"Sidney;" "Philip and His Wife;" "Old Chester Tales;" etc.) 
Now on Newbury Street. 

No. 79. John Davis Long (1838-19 15). During 1896 and 1897. 
Governor of Massachusetts, and Secretary of the Navy. This was 
previously the home of Judge Horace Gray. (Translation of Virgil's 




HOMES OF THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 

AND CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS 

MT. VERNON STREET 



"yEneid; " " After Dinner and other Speeches.") Lived at No. 423 
Beacon Street from 1875 to 1883. 

No. 83. William Ellery Channing (i 780-1842). The leader of 
American Unitarianism, and one of the foremost theologians of his 



12 LOUISBURG SQUARE 

time. He died in this house, which his widow and Ur. William 
Francis Channing, one of his gifted sons and the inventor of the 
electric fire-alarm telegraph, occupied for some time afterward. 
Also lived, earlier, in old Nos. 49 and 61. (" Evidences of Revealed 
Religion;" " Self-Culture;" " Essaj' on Milton;" etc.) 

No. 88. Mrs. Adeline D. T. Whitney (1824-1906) . The daugh- 
ter of Colonel Enoch Train. Lived here until her marriage, about 
1845. Her cousin, George Francis Train, widely known as an ec- 
centric lecturer and writer, also lived in this house. She resided in 
Milton for many years. 

No. 92. Anne Whitney (1821-1915). From 1877 to 1893. Toet 
and sculptor. ("Poems.") See also 535 Beacon Street. 

No. QQ. John Codman Ropes (1836-1899). A lawyer and a bril- 
liant military hietorian. This house was his home for the greater 
part of his life, and here he died. (''The Campaign of Waterloo; " 
"The First Napoleon;" "The Story of the Civil War.") John T. 
Wheelwright (1856- ) lived here for a number of years. A brilliant 
but infrequent writer. (" RoUo's Journey to Cambridge [in part]; " 
"A Child of the Century;" "A Bad Penny.") 

No. 112. Margaret Wade Deland. From 1888 to 1894. See 
No. 76. 

LOUISBURG SQUARE 

Running from Mt. Vernon to Pinckney Street, this re- 
tired spot is the quintessence of the older Boston. With- 
out positive beauty, its dignity and repose save it from 
any suggestion of ugliness. Here once bubbled up, it is 
fondly believed, in the centre of the iron-railed inclosure, 
that spring of water with which First Settler William 
Blackstone helped to coax Winthrop and his followers 
over the river from Charlestown. There is no monument 
to Blackstone here or anywhere, but in this significant 
spot stand two statues, one to Columbus and one to Aris- 
tides the Just, both of Italian make, and presented to the 
city by a Greek merchant of Boston ! 

No. 4. William Dean Howells (183 7-1920). About 1884. See 
also Beacon Street, Commonwealth Avenue, and Cambridge. 

No. 5. John Gorham Palfrey. From 1862 to 1867. See also 
Chestnut Street, and Cambridge. 

No. 10. Louisa May Alcott. Pier Boston home from 1S85 til/ 



PINCKNEY STREET 



13 



her death in 1888, though she died in Roxbury. Her father, A. 
Bronson Alcott, died here after making it in part his home for several 
years. See also Pinckney Street, and Concord. 

PINCKNEY STREET 

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HOMES OF WILLIAM DEAN HQWELLS 

AND LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 

LOUISBURG SQUARE 

Joy Street to the river, down the western ridge o.f Beacon 
Hill, and dividing the more prosperous and elegant quar- 
ters to the south and east from the less prosperous and 
occasionally squalid section which slopes off steeply to 
Cambridge Street. To Pinckney Street has been given 
neither poverty nor riches, but it maintains an air of en- 
tire self-respect and even complacency, for here, as the 



14 PINCKNEY STREET 

following names, will show, have lived people who have 
given it dignity, and made its quaint individuality yet 
more memorable. 



No. 4. Jacob Abbott (1803-1879). One of the most famous of 
the early nineteenth century educators and writers of New England. 
1831-1832. (" The Rollo Books;" etc.) 

No. 9. Lowell Mason (i 792-1872). A famous Boston musician, 
composer, and writer on musical subjects. About 1841. ("Mu- 
sical Letters from Abroad;" etc.) 

No. II. Edwin P. Whipple (1819-1886). A critical writer of 
great power and clearness. ("Essays and Reviews;" "Literature 
and Life.") Alice Brown (1857- ) makes her winter home here. 
See Chestnut Street. 

No. 16. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1921). Poet, essayist, 
novelist, and editor. Later in Oxford, England. ("Goose-Quill 
Papers;" " Patrins;" " Songs at the Start;" etc.) Here hved also 
Edwin Munroe Bacon (1844-19 16). Journalist, editor, author, 
antiquarian. A connoisseur of New England, historical and literary. 
("Walks and Rides about Boston;" " Historic Pilgrimages in New 
England;" etc.) See also West Cedar Street. 

No. 19. Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895), In 1843. Founder 
and editor of several reviews and a proHfic writer of books of travel. 
("History of Cuba;" "Due West;" etc.) See also Boylston and 
Charles streets. 

No. 20. Louisa May Alcott (183 2-1888), daughter of A. Bronson 
Alcott (see Concord). Here the Alcotts lived after 1854 for several 
years. Miss x\lcott's enduring fame is based on a real, if not a purely 
literary, merit. (Among her works are "Little Women;" "Little 
Men;" " An Old-Fashioned Girl;" " Hospital Sketches.") See also 
No. 81, Louisburg Square, and Concord. Mr. Alcott's famous 
school was in the top story of the old Masonic Temple, since re- 
placed by the dry-goods store of R. H. Stearns & Co., corner of 
Tremont Street and Temple Place. 

No. 21. ElizabethPalmer Peabody (1804-1894). Sister-in-law 
of Hawthorne, and an early educator and introducer of kindergarten 
methods. Kept a kindergarten here in 1862 and 1863. ("^Esthetic 
Papers;" "Record of a School [Alcott's].") 

No. 54. George Stillman Hillard (1808-1879). Until 1848. A 
Boston lawyer, educator, orator, and scholar of elegance and taste. 
One of the intimate friends of Hawthorne, who frequented this house 
much at one time. ("Memoir of Jeremiah Mason;" "Life of 



WEST CEDAR STREET 15 

George Ticknor [with Mrs. Ticknor];" "Six Months in Italy.") 
His " Readers" had a great vogue for many years, and were an im- 
portant formative influence in American education. From 1848 to 
1879 at No. 62. He died at Longwood, in Brookhne. 

No. 66. John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893). Musical critic, 
editor, writer. After leaving Brook Farm, where he spent five 
years, Mr. Dwight lived in this house (1849-1852), with his friend 
Mrs. Anna Q. Parsons and her daughters.. Here he was married 
(185 1) to Miss Bullard. Afterward he moved to Charles Street. 
See also Park Square, and West Cedar Street. 

No. 78. Zitella Cocke (1847- )• A writer of verse and chil- 
dren's stories. Now Hving in the South. (" A Doric Reed.") 

No. 81. Louisa May Alcott. From 1880 for several years. See 
No. 20; also Louisburg Square and Concord. 

No. 84. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (183 7-1907). Here was written 
the famous " Story of a Bad Boy." See also Charles and Mt. Ver- 
non streets. 

No. 91. Benjamin FrankUn Stevens (1824-1908). Not to be 
confounded with the bibliographer of the same name, who died in 
London in 1901. A literary amateur of no uncertain merit, chiefly 
known by a series of historical pamphlets. 

No. 98. Celia (Laighton) Thaxter (1835-1894). Although this 
poet's childhood and much of her later life were passed in the Isles 
of Shoals, here she spent several winters when in Boston. (" Drift- 
wood;" "Idyls and Pastorals;" " Poems;" "An Island Garden.") 

WEST CEDAR STREET 

One of the minor, yet still quaint streets of the West 
End. Its range of interests, social or historical, does not 
now extend to the north much beyond its junction with 
Pinckney Street, just about where stood the house of the 
first white man (Blackstone) in Boston. 

No. I. John Sullivan Dwight. As Secretary of the Harvard 
Musical Association, Mr. Dwight moved here with it (1892), and 
lived here up to his death (1893). The Association has since moved 
to 57A Chestnut Street. See also Pinckney Street, and Park Square. 

No. 3. George (1803-1885) and Adeline Treadwell (Parsons) 
Lunt. In the eighties. Mr. Lunt, who was a figure of some literary 
importance in his day, wrote among other works: " The Age of Gold, 
and Other Poems," " Sonnets and Miscellanies;" "Three Eras of 



i6 ASHBURTON PLACE, HANCOCK ST., ETC. 

New England." The fine touch of Mrs. Lunt in lyric verse is not 
yet forgotten. Here also with his sister and brother-in-law dwelt 
for a time Dr. T. W. Parsons. Henry Childs Merwin (1853- ) 
later became the occupant of this interesting house. A lawyer by 
profession, he is also the author of some historical biography and 
magazine writing of notable fineness and quality. ( " Aaron Burr; " 
''Thomas Jefferson;" " Road, Track, and Stable.") 

No. II. Percival Lowell (1855-1916). Brother of Abbott Law- 
rence Lowell (see Marlborough Street, and Cambridge). Writer, 
traveler, and astronomer. (" The Soul of the Far East;" "Occult 
Japan;" " Mars.") 

No. 25. Edwin Munroe Bacon. For nearly twenty years he 
lived here while editor of the " Boston Post," and here he harbored 
his friend " Taverner," that blend of many fine personalities, at 
whose passing disappeared a certain mellow and personal note in 
Boston journalism. See also Pinckney Street. 

No. 41. Abbie Farwell Brown (187 - ). Poet and writer of 
clever books for children. ("The Book of Saints and Friendly 
Beasts;" " In the Days of Giants;" " The Lonesomest Doll.") 

ASHBURTON PLACE, HANCOCK STREET 
JOY STREET 

No. 3 Ashburton Place. Here Mrs. Rebecca Parker Clarke, 

widow of Dr. Samuel and mother of James Freeman Clarke, kept a 
boarding-house in the thirties. Among her boarders were Jared 
Sparks (see Cambridge), Horace Mann, and the three daughters of 
Dr. Nathaniel Peabody (see also West Street and Salem), Elizabeth, 
Mary, who afterwards married Horace Mann, and Sophia, who be- 
came the wife of Hawthorne. 

No. 20 Hancock Street. Charles Sumner (1811-1874). The 
successor of Daniel Webster in the United States Senate, and the 
most potent voice from Massachusetts in national legislation against 
the extension or existence of slavery. Some of his speeches and 
orations have become a part of American literature. There is a 
memorial tablet on the house. ( " The True Grandeur of Nations; " 
" Prophetic Voices concerning America; " " Complete Works," in 
15 vols.) 

No. 24 Hancock Street. Colonel Samuel Swett (i 782-1866). A 
prominent citizen of Boston, and a well-known topographical en- 
gineer. He was versed in military history and strategy, and wrote 
occasional poems. (" History and Topographical Sketch of Bunker 
Hill;" " Who was Commander at Bunker Hill?") 



BRIMMER STREET 17 

No. 3 Joy Street. Charlotte Porter (1859- ) and Helen A. 
Clarke, the founders and editors of " Poet-Lore." Besides making 
the first English translation of Maeterlinck, they have edited the 
Works of Mr. and Mrs. Browning. Now at 1 1 Queensbury Street. 

CHARLES STREET 

The residential part of Charles Street which concerns 
the visitor extends from Beacon Street to Cambridge 
Street. It is without striking or attractive features, yet 
at one time it was the abode of several Boston worthies 
memorable in literature. Though passing into that unin- 
viting senescence where the boarding-house predominates 
over the home, it still has the flavor of the West End. 

No. 15. Alice Turner Curtis. Author. ("The Little Runa- 
ways;" "A Little Heroine at School; " " A Challenge to Adventure; " 
etc.) 

No. 76. Maturin Murray Ballou. In 1879 and following years 
this incessant travaler lived here. See Boylston and Pinckney 
streets. 

No. 82. Josiah Phillips Quincy (1829-1910). Son, grandson, 
and great-grandson respectively of the three Josiahs of the Quincy 
family. Unlike his three immediate ancestors he did not confine 
himself to history, politics, and biography, but, more Hke his dis- 
tinguished uncle, Edmund Quincy (see Beacon Street), he wandered 
into the field of the imagination. ( " Charicles, a Drama; " " Lyteria, 
a Dramatic Poem;" "The Peckster Professorship.") 

No. 127. Lucretia Hale (1820- 1900), the sister of Edward Ev- 
erett Hale (see Highland Street, Roxbury). She is, perhaps, best 
known by her humorous juveniles. ( " The Peterkin Papers; " *' The 
Last of the Peterkins;" "The New Harry and Lucy."). 

No. 131. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. From 1871 to 1881. The 
house is identified with some of his important work. See also Mt. 
Vernon and Pinckney streets. 

BRIMMER STREET 

No. 6. William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905). Lecturer and 
religious writer of unusual force and courage. (" The Destiny of 
the Soul;" " Poetry of the Orient;" " Life of Edwin Forrest;" etc.) 
Also Abby Langdon Alger, his daughter, a translator of reputation 
and interested in folk-lore. (" In Indian Tents. Stories told by 
Indians.") 



i8 THE NORTH END 

No. 25. Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1889). Minister of the ven- 
erable King's Chapel from 1861 to his death, and its accomplished 
historian. (''Annals of King's Chapel.") A brother of Arthur 
Foote, the musician and composer. 

No. 26. M. A. DeWolfe Howe (1864- ). Editor and author. 
("American Bookmen;" "Boston Common;" "The Boston Sym- 
phony Orchestra;" Editor of " The Beacon Biographies.") 

No. 44. Samuel Eliot (1821-1898). Author, editor, educator, 
and orator. At one time President of Trinity College. ("History 
of Liberty;" "Manual of United States History;" "Poetry for 
Children;" etc.) 

OTIS PLACE 

No. I. Adams ShermanHill (1833-1910). Professor of Rhetoric 
at Harvard College. ("Our EngHsh;" "The Principles of Rhet- 
oric;" "The Foundations of Rhetoric;" etc.) 

No. 4. Arlo Bates. From 1902. See Chestnut Street. 

No. 14. William Foster Apthorp (1848-1913). Musical critic 
and writer, and occasional translator. Long known for his explana- 
tions in the programmes of the Boston Symphony Concerts. ( " Mu- 
sicians and Music-Lovers, and Other Essays; " " By the Way; Short 
Essays on Music and Art," 2 vols.; etc.) 

THE NORTH END 

This ancient part of the city is well worth a long ram- 
ble, not only for certain important historical landmarks, 
but for impressions of several interesting quarters where 
live at fresco fashion, but enterprising and industrious, 
various n.ationahties, particularly Italians, Portuguese, 
and Hebrews. Only a few spots remain which illustrate 
our specific purpose. 

Though leaving the visitor to ancient cemeteries largely to his 
own devices, it is impossible not to call attention to the fact that in 
the Copp's Hill Burial Ground, reached by going up Hull Street, 
which leads directly to it from the old Christ Church on Salem 
Street, is the tomb, one among many of exceeding interest, which 
contains the remains of Increase (1639-1723), Cotton (1663-1728) 
and Samuel (i 706-1 785) Mather. We may not even hint at an 
enumeration of the nearly five hundred published works of the first 



WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 



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two of these worthies. But, not without learning, force, and influ- 
ence in their day, these sober productions are all forgotten, save 
only Cotton Mather's " Magnalia." 









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COPP'S HILL BURIAL GROUND 

On the northeast corner of Union and Marshall streets, built 
about the middle of the eighteenth century, is a building where was 
once the shop of one Hopestill Capen. To him was apprenticed 
in 1769 Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rimiford, after a three 
years' service in Salem. See also Salem. 



WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 

FROM BOWDOIN SQUARE TO COMMON STREET 

Through the central part of the city, starting from the 
foot of the northern side of Beacon Hill and turning 
gradually east and south, we come across a number of the 
older literary houses that, as in the South End, cannot 
well be grouped by streets. 

No. 34 Cambridge Street. In the sixties, Harriet Prescott Spof- 
ford. Later home Newburyport. 
No. 42 Green Street, near Bowdoin Square. Harriet Beecher 



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WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 



Stowe (1811-1896). From 1826 to 1832, twenty years before she 
wrote " Uncle Tom's Cabin," and some seven before her marriage. 
(" Dred;" '' Oldtown Folks;" " The Pearl of Orr's Island;" etc.) 

No. 2 Lynde Street. Harrison Gray Otis (i 765-1 848). Promi- 
ent lawyer and mayor of Boston. Built in 1795, the house is now 
headquarters of The Society for the Preservation of New England 
Antiquities, a rapidly growing museum open to the public. 

The building formerly occupied by the " Old Comer Bookstore " 
(corner Washington and School streets) is a landmark almost as 
historical as it is literary. It is the oldest bVick building in Boston. 




OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE BUILDING 
CORNER OF SCHOOL AND WASHINGTON STREETS 



Built in 1712, it stands on the site where Anne Hutchinson (1591- 
1643) held her famous meetings, for the hberalism of which she was 
driven from the Colony. So long had this building been put to its 
former use that its title has been for years a familiar Boston by- 
word. Beginning with 1828, the front was used as a bookshop by 
Carter & Hendee. They were succeeded by the following book- 
f^rms: Allen & Ticknor, WiUiam D. Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor & Co., 
Ticknor & Fields, E. P. Button & Co., A. Williams & Co., Cupples, 
Upham & Co., and Damrell & Upham. From this famous corner 
developed the present firm of Houghton Mifflin Co. (see Park Street), 



WASHINGTON STREET DISTRICT 21 

and the now extinct firm of Roberts Bros. Early in the last century, 
however, it was the home and shop of Dr. Samuel Clarke, the father 
of James Freeman Clarke (see Ashburton Place). Twenty years 
after the time of Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Bookstore (see West 
Street), the " Old Corner" could be said to have inherited its power 
of literary attraction as a place of congregation for the eminent men 
of the day. 

Old South Church (corner Milk and Washington streets). In 
the belfry of this historic church was kept, until 1866, the Prince 
Library, now held in trust by the Boston Public Library. John 
Adams was a frequenter of its shelves. Here also Dr. Jeremy Bel- 
knap (i 744-1 798), historian and divine, long had his study, and 
much of his work was done here. ("History of New Hamp- 
shire;" "American Biographies;" "The Foresters: an American 
Tale.") 

No. 15 West Street. From 1840 until 1854 the home of Dr. 
Nathaniel Peabody and his three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and 
Sophia (see also Ashburton Place, and Salem). Here Dr. Peabody 
and EHzabeth opened their famous " Foreign Bookstore," and here 
the " Dial" was for a time published. Here too Margaret Fuller (see 
also Cambridge) began her series of Conversations, or " classes," as 
they were called. And in this house were often to be met Allston, 
the artist, Emerson, Ripley, Hawthorne, Hedge, and others who 
have helped to broaden American thought and literature. 

No. 31 HoUis Street. The house in which Francis Jackson (1789- 
186 1), a prominent reformer, long president of the Anti-Slavery 
Society, and the author of "A History of the Early Settlement of 
Newton," entertained Harriet Martineau in 1835. On Hollis Street, 
"nearly opposite the church" (now the theatre), was the home and 
school from 181 1 to 1822 of Susanna (Haswell) Rowson(i762-i824), 
author of the famous " Charlotte Temple." 

No. 12 Burroughs Place, off Hollis Street. From 1845 to 1856 
the home of the Rev. Thomas Starr King (see Charlestown). He 
afterwards lived for a short time at 76 Dover Street. 

No. 37 Common Street. Wendell Phillips died here in 1884. 
See also Walnut Street. 

No. 93 Tyler Street. ( "The Denison House," a settlement house. 
Florence Converse (187 1- ), novelist and philanthropist, lived 
here for some time. ("Diana Victrix;" "The Burden of Christo- 
pher.") Other literary workers have also lived here temporarily, 
among them Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858- ), the statisti- 
cian, economist, and historian. 



BOYLSTON STREET 



BOYLSTON STREET 

With the removal of the Public Library from its old 
home opposite the Common to Copley Square, what was 
left of older Boylston Street rapidly changed or disap- 
peared. Following the law of civic growth, this impor- 
tant thoroughfare, half-commercial, half-residential, is 
stretching rapidly westward. Its hterary significance is 
relatively small, yet not to be ignored. 

No. II Park Square. From 1886 to 1892 the rooms of the Har- 
vard Musical Association, and for that period the abode of its presi- 
dent, John Sullivan Dwight. Later the Association moved to West 
Cedar Street and thence to Chestnut Street. 

Carver Street, corner of Broadway Street. Edgar Allan Poe 
(1809-1849) birthplace. Machine shop now on site. A film of 
"Annabel Lee" was shown here to Boston authors in 1921 by Joe 
Mitchell Chappie, who then gave a bust of Poe to the Conservatory 
of Music, Huntington Avenue. 

"The Brunswick." Maturin Murray Ballou (see also Charles 
and Pinckney streets) came here in 1887, and died eight years later 
while a resident of the house. Lilian Whiting (1855- ), who is a 
journahst and author of several books, now makes her home here. 
James Schouler (1839-1920), by profession a lawyer, lived here for 
some time. Professor Schouler is best known by his " History of the 
United States under the Constitution; " while Miss Whiting, besides 
her several "World Beautiful" books, has written "Kate Field: A 
Record," etc. Her work, entitled " Boston Days," is an apprecia- 
tion of this city from a personal standpoint. 

Copley Square. The Public Library of the City of Boston was 
founded in 1852, and from 1858 to 1894 was on the site of the Colo- 
nial Theatre (Boylston Street). The present structure, built by 
the architects McKim, Mead, and White, was opened to the public 
in 1895, and cost about $2,763,000. The library system contains 
1,258,211 volumes, made accessible by a catalogue of about 2,000,000 
titles on cards, by Quarterly Bulletins of recent accessions, by 
Weekly Lists of new books added, by special bibliographies, and by 
brief reading lists on timely subjects. Besides the Central Library 
there are 317 distributing agencies, including 16 branches and 15 
reading rooms (minor branches). The yearly home use of books is 
about 2,673,000. A "Handbook of the Library" containing de- 



MARLBOROUGH STREET 23 

scriptions of the mural decorations by Puvis de Chavannes, Edwin 
A. Abbey, John Elliott, Joseph Linden Smith, and John S. Sargent, 
and of other important works of art by Daniel C. French, Frederic 
MacMonnies, and Louis Saint-Gaudens, is for sale on the second 
floor opposite the elevator, where photographs and postcards of the 
Library and decorations may also be obtained. Librarian: Charles 
F. D. Belden. 

No. 645. George Angier Gordon (1853- ). A prominent Con- 
gregational clergyman, of Scotch birth; pastor of the historic Old 
South Church from 1884. Here for nearly forty years. ("The 
Christ of To-Day;" "The New Epoch for Faith;" etc.) 

No. 1 154. Massachusetts Historical Society. The oldest institu- 
tion of its kind in America, established in 1791. Contains a library 
of about 175,000 books, ov^er 100,000 pamphlets, and many thou- 
sands of manuscripts. Its own pubhcations, including its valuable 
Collections and Proceedings, comprise about 125 separate volumes, 
notable among them Bradford's " History of Plymouth Plantation" 
and " The Education of Henry Adams." Has large invested funds 
and a beautiful building to which the pubHc is admitted. Many 
valuable portraits and rehcs are to be seen, among them the "crossed 
swords" mentioned in the opening of Thackeray's "Virginians." 
Worn at the battle of Bunker Hill, one by W. H. Prescott's grand- 
father, the other by Capt. John Linzee, grandfather of Prescott's 
wife, these swords were formerly in the library of the historian. 
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850- ), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 
and eminent statesman, historian, and author, has been President 
of this Society since 1Q15, succeeding in that capacity Charles Fran- 
cis Adams (i835-i9i5),sonof thefirstof that name (seeMt. Vernon 
Street). The librarian, Julius Herbert Tuttle (lives in Dedham, 
Mass.), has long been connected with the Society, is editor of the 
Dedham Historical Register and author of " The Libraries of the 
Mathers." 

Directly across the street, on the very edge of the " Fens," stands 
French's fine monument to John Boyle O'Reilly (see also Charles- 
town). 



MARLBOROUGH STREET 

Running between Beacon Street and Commonwealth 
Avenue, and parallel with them, is Marlborough Street. 
When this section has the added dignity and quality of 



24 MARLBOROUGH STREET 

age, it is likely that this street will hold about the same 
relation to its neighbors as Chestnut Street now holds to 
Beacon and Mt. Vernon streets. 

No, 80. Edward Jackson Lowell. From 1885 to 1890. See also 
Commonwealth Avenue. 

No. 90. Robert C. Winthrop. From 1873 to 1894. See also 
Beacon Street. 

No. 118. Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822-1895). Between 
1884 and 1890. Son of Nathaniel Langdon (see Charlestown) and 
brother of Ellen (see Commonwealth Avenue). A radical Unitarian 
clergyman, who gave up preaching and devoted himself to a literary- 
life in Boston in 1880. ("Theodore Parker;" "Memoir of W. H. 
Channing;" " George Ripley;" " Transcendentalism in New Eng- 
land.") 

No. 140. Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop. Until 1895. See 
also Concord. 

No. 142. Elizabeth Phipps Train (1857- ) . Novelist and trans- 
lator. ("Autobiography of a Professional Beauty;" "A Social 
Highwayman.") Now in Duxbury. 

No. 171. Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856- ). President of 
Harvard University since May 19, 1909. Lawyer, publicist and 
author. See Cambridge. 

No. 224. '• Grace LeBaron" Upham (1845-1916). The wife of 
Henry M. Upham, of the publishing firm of Damrell & Upham, and 
a writer of stories for children. ("The Rosebud Club;" "Little 
Miss Faith.") 

No. 303. Helen Leah Reed now lives at Riverbank Court, Cam- 
bridge. See also Commonwealth Avenue. 

No. 312. Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845- )• Critic and man of 
letters, also a translator of some important works. (" From Opitz 
to Lessing;" "English Literature in the Eighteenth Century;" 
" Histiory of Greek Literature; " etc.) His wife, Lilla (Cabot) Perry, 
is a poet of delicacy and quality. ("Heart of the Weed;" "Im- 
pressions: a Book of \'erse.") 

No. 358. Barrett Wendell (1855-1921). . A practicer as well as a 
preacher of sound literature, and Professor of English at Harvard. 
His " Literary History of America" is a work of unusual strength. 
("The Duchess EmiUa," a romance; "Cotton Mather, the Puri- 
tan Priest;" "Raleigh in Guiana, Rosamund, and A Christmas 
Masque;" etc.) 

No. 380. 'Charles James Sprague (1823-1903). From 1880. 
Son of the poet, Charles Sprague. His published work is small, but 



COMMONWEALTH AVENUE 25 

he contributed poems, papers, and other matter to periodicals for 
many years. 

No. 387. Morton Dexter (1846-1910). Son of Henry Martyn 
Dexter, and formerly editor of the " Congregationalist." ("The 
Story of the Pilgrims.") 

No. 393. Charles Gershom Fall (1845- ). ("Dreams;" "A 
Village Sketch, and Other Poems;" etc.) 

No. 431. Anna (Eichberg) Lane (1853- ), formerly Mrs. King, 
and now the wife of John Lane, of " Bodley Head" fame. Here 
till her second marriage. A writer chiefly of short stories. ("Brown's 
Retreat, and Other Stories;" " Kitwyk Stories;" etc.) 

No. 459. Frederic Jesup Stimson ("J. S. of Dale") (1855- ). 
Lives in Dedham in the slimmer in the reconstructed residence of the 
Federalist statesman, Fisher Ames. A lawyer and a writer of law- 
books. His career as a novelist began with a share in the author- 
ship of the immortal " Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," and among 
his more popular stories are " Guerndale" and " King Noanett." 

COMMONWEALTH AVENUE. 

In Richard Grant White's "Fate of Mansfield Hum- 
phreys" one of the characters, an EngHsh woman, speaks 
of this avenue as a ''street for gentlemen to live in," and 
as the "most beautiful she has ever seen." A hundred 
years from now there will perhaps be yet more to say of 
this finely conceived entrance into the city. 

No. 10. Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884). From 1864 to 
1884. The brother-in-law of Longfellow and the wit par excelleme 
of Boston in the last century, as the Rev. Mather Byles was in the 
eighteenth. Had this briUiant man of the world, with his marked 
esthetic and literary temperament, felt the pressure of necessity, 
this country might have gained an artist or a man of letters. (" A 
Sheaf of Papers;" "A Nile Journal;" etc.) 

No. 19. Thomas Coffin Amory (181 2-1889). Lawyer and au- 
thor. ("Life of James SuUivan;" " Mihtary Services of Major- 
General John Sullivan;" " Transfer of Erin.") 

No. 40. Edward Jackson Lowell (1845- 1894). Historian. ("The 
Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the 
Revolutionary War;" " The Eve of the French Revolution.") See 
also Marlborough Street. 

No. 45. Kate Gannett Wells (1838-1911). A daughter of the 



26 BACK BAY DISTRICT 

Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, and among her other activities a leader of 
the older views in regard to equal suffrage, to which question she con- 
tributed by voice and pen, ( " About People; " '' Miss Curtis; " etc.) 

No. 122. William Lawrence (1850- ). Bishop of the Diocese 
of Massachusetts since 1893. ( " Life of Amos A. Lawrence;" " Vi- 
sions and Service;" "Phillips Brooks: A Study;" etc.) 

No. 176. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) Wesselhoeft (1840-1919). A 
writer of popular juveniles, of which, among the more recent, are 
" High School Days in Harbortown; " " Old Sultan's Thanksgiving." 

No. 184. " The Abbotsford." This modern apartment hotel has 
been and is the home of several writers, among them Helen Leah 
Reed (186- ), author of "Miss Theodora" and the "Brenda" 
stories (see Marlborough Street) ; and Lucy W. Jennison. William 
Dean Howells, in his energetic Wanderjahrc, once lived on this 
spot, and "The Abbotsford" covers the site of his Avenue house 
(see also Beacon Street, Louisburg Square, and Cambridge). 

No. 191. '' Hotel Agassiz." Anna Fuller (1853-1917). x-\uthor 
of "A Venetian June;" "A Literary Courtship;" " Pratt Portraits;" 
etc.; and, up to her death, Ellen Itothingham (1835-1902), the 
daughter of Nathaniel Langdon (see Charlestown) and sister of 
Octavius Brooks Frothingham (see Marlborough Street). Noted 
for her fine translations from the German, especially of Lessing, 
Goethe, Auerbach, and Grillparzer. 

No. 325. Hannah Parker Kimball (1861-1921). A verse writer. 
(" Soul and Sense;" "The Cup of Life;" " Victory;" etc.) 

No. 333. William Dana Orcutt (1870- ). Printer, author, and 
lecturer. Associated with the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. 
("Good Old Dorchester;" "Writer's Desk Book;" "The Bache- 
lors;" etc.) 

No. 340. Ashton Rollins Willard (1858-1918). A lawyer and 
Utterateur, who devoted himself to a study of Italian art. (" His- 
tory of Modern Italian Art;" " The Land of the Latins.") 

No. 477. Willis Boyd Allen (1855- ). Lawyer and author. 
("Mountaineer Series;" " Cloud and Cliff;" " Forest Home Series;" 
etc.) 

BACK BAY DISTRICT 

OUTSIDE OF BEACON AND MARLBOROUGH STREETS AND 
COMMONWEALTH AVENUE 

Berkeley Street, No. 249. Edmund Farwell Slafter (1816-1906). 
Clergyman, an accurate and scholarly historian, and the President 



BACK BAY DISTRICT 27 

of the Prince Society. (" John Checkley; or the Evolution of Re- 
ligious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay;" " Voyage of the North- 
men to America.") 

Clarendon Street, No. 233. Phillips Brooks (1835-1893). Ac- 
counted the foremost preacher in America of his day, and the sixth 
Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. This rectory was the home of Phillips Brooks for many 
years until his death, but Trinity Church is the true memorial of his 
life and works. (" The Influence of Jesus: Bohlen Lectures;" " Let- 
ters of Travel;" etc.) 

Clarendon Street, No. 270. Anna Coleman Ladd (1878- ). 
Sculptor, author. ('' Hieronymous Rides;" "The Candid Adven- 
turer.") 

Dartmouth Street, " Trinity Court." Leon Henry Vincent (1859- 

). Author and lecturer. ("The Bibliotaph;" "Brief Studies 
in French Society and Letters in the XVIIth Century," 4 vols.) 
The Boston Authors' Club has its headquarters here. 

No. 81. Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896). Under the signa- 
ture of " Carleton," a once famous war correspondent, journalist, 
and writer. His numerous books, patriotically historical, have ap- 
pealed to American youth. ("Winning his Way;" "Following 
the Flag;" etc.) 

No. 281. May Alden Ward (1853-1918). A writer, chiefly of 
artistic biography. (" Petrarch; " " Dante;" " Old Colony Days.") 

St. James Avenue (off Copley Square), " The Ludlow." Richard 
(Eugene) Burton (1859- ). Author, editor, critic, and publisher. 
Now Head o.f the English Department of the University of Minne- 
sota. (" Dumb in June, and Other Poems;" " Forces in Fiction;" 
" John Greenleaf Whittier;" " Literary Likings;" etc.) 

Huntington Avenue, " The Oxford." Catherine Mary (Reignolds) 
(Mrs. Erving) Winslow (183 -191 1). A once popular actress and 
also a well-known reader. (" Yesterdays with Actors;" " Readings 
from the Old English Dramatists;" etc.) 

No. 90. Horatio Willis Dresser (1866- ). A writer on "ap- 
pHed" metaphysics. Best known for his " Power of Silence." Now 
hving in Brookline. 

St. Botolph Street, No. loi. Minot J. Savage (1841-1918). A 
radical clergyman, writer on modern social science, Christianity, 
and psychical research. Moved to New York. ( " Jesus and Mod- 
em Life;" "Can Telepathy Explain?" " Bluffton: A Novel;" 
etc.) Here also lived his son Phillip Henry Savage (see Beacon 
Street). 

No. 102. Edwin Reed (183 5- 1 908). Shakespearean scholar, and 



28 BACK BAY DISTRICT 

one of the strongest advocates of the " Baconian Theory," (" Ba- 
con vs. Shakspeare;" " Bacon and Shakspeare Parallelisms.") 

Newbury Street, No. 4. The St. Botolph Club. A club which 
through its members exerts a powerful influence on the literary, 
artistic, and musical interests of Boston. 

No. 28. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established 
in 1780. The oldest scientific society in America, with the exception 
of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, founded 
thirty-seven years earlier. The building was erected in 19 12 in 
memory of Alexander Agassiz, eminent scientist and President of 
the Academy, 1894-1903. The membership is limited to 600 and 
now consists of 567 Fellows, 69 of whom are foreign honorary mem- 
bers. The proceedings of the Academy are published in 57 volumes. 
George Foot Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Re- 
ligion at Harvard University and author of many theological writ- 
ings, is now President of the Academy. 

No. 35. Margaret Deland. Since 1902. See also Mt. Vernon 
Street. 

No. 250. VidaD. Scudder (1861- ). Until 1902. A Professor of 
English Literature at Wellesley College, as well as critic and editor. 
("The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets;" "Social 
Ideals in English Letters;" etc.) Now in Newton. 

Fairfield Street, No. 16. John Torrey Morse, Jr. (1840- ). 
Nephew and biographer of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Besides his 
" Life" of Holmes, he has written historical biographies of Hamilton, 
J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Lincoln, and Franklin. 

Charles River Square, No. 5. Ferris Greenslet (1875- ). Pub- 
lisher, author, and editor. (" Joseph Glanvill;" " The Quest of the 
Holy Grail;" " Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.") 

Massachusetts Avenue, No. 31, " The Stratford." Thomas Rus- 
sell Sullivan (1849-1916). Novehst and dramatist. Besides sev- 
eral plays, he wrote " Tom Sylvester;" " Roses of Shadow;" " Ars 
et Vita;" " The Courage of Conviction;" etc. 

Westland Avenue, No. 68. James Jeffrey Roche (1847-1908). 
A popular Boston journalist and writer both of prose and verse. 
Was long editor of " The Pilot." ( " Ballads of Blue Water;" 
" Life of John Boyle O'Reilly;" " Her Majesty the King," etc.) 

Fenway, No. 24. Moorfield Storey (1845- ). Lawyer, and 
participant, through his pen, in the vital questions of the times. 
His home is now at Lincoln, Mass. {" Charles Sumner.") 

Off to the right and across the railroad is: — 

Bay State Road, No. 211. Robert Grant (1852- ). A judge 
of the busy Probate Court, he has written sketches and stories full 



THE SOUTH END 29 

of gracious touches and a delicate sympathy with life. Notwith- 
standing the ''daintier sense" of most of his writing, he has achieved 
one novel so serious as to be almost solemn, " Unleavened Bread." 
("Reflections of a Married Man;" "The Art of Living;" "The 
Opinions of a Philosopher.") 

Bay State Road, No. 225. William Lindsey (1858- ). Author. 
("The Severed Mantle;" " Red Wine of Roussillon.") 

THE SOUTH END 

No. 36 Claremont Park. Walter Leon Sawyer (1862-1915). 
Journalist, editor, and an admirable exponent of the social asj^ects 
of the " South End " of Boston. ( "An Outland Journey; " "A Local 
Habitation.") 

No. 175 Warren Avenue. Frank Gelett Burgess. From 1899 
to igoi. A humorous writer, best known as the editor of "The 
Lark" and the author of the famous "Purple Cow." (" Vivette; 
or, The Memoirs of the Romance Association;" etc.) 

No. 28 Rutland Square. (Ellen) Louise Chandler Moulton (1835- 
1908). Poet and prose writer. Among her numerous works are 
"Poems;" "Swallow Flights;" "Miss Eyre from Boston;" "At 
the Wind's Will." 

No. 598 Tremont Street. Charles James Sprague (1823-1903). 
Up to 1880. See also Marlborough Street. 

No. 638. William Elliot Griffis ( 1 843- ) . Now in Ithaca, N. Y. 
He has written largely on Japan, on early American history, and of 
late on Holland. (" The Mikado's Empire;" " Japan: in History, 
Folk-Lore, and Art;" " The Pilgrims in their Three Homes;" " The 
American in Holland.") 

No. 28 Worcester Street. Hezekiah Butterworth (1837-1905). 
A prolific writer for youth, and for many years on the staff of the 
"Youth's Companion." ("Zigzag Journeys;" "The Knight of 
Liberty;" " In the Boyhood of Lincoln;" etc.) 

No. 65. William Henry Whitmore (1836-1900). His latest 
home. Long the City Registrar of Boston, and an authority on 
matters of genealogy and local history. (" American Genealogy;" 
editor of the " Andros Tracts;" etc.) 

No. 47 Concord Square. Ralph Waldo Trine (1866- ). From 
1894 to 1896, then St. Botolph Street. Now living in Ossining, New 
York. Writer and lecturer. (" What all the World's a-Seeking;" 
" In Tune with the Infinite.") 

No. 61 Brookline Street. Justin Winsor, the eminent historian, 
librarian, and bibliographer. From 1861 to 1871, during part of 



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which time he was Superintendent of the Boston Public Library. 
Later lived in Cambridge. 

No. 20 Union Park. " South End House." Robert Archey 
Woods. Humanitarian and social student. ("The City Wilder- 
ness;" " Americans in Process.") 

No. 1330 Washington Street. Mary Elizabeth (McGrath) Blake. 
From 1876 to 1895. See Beacon Street. 

DORCHESTER 

Comprising Wards 16, 20, and 24 of the city, Dor- 
chester covers a large territory, and is interesting histori- 
cally, but it is rather barren of hterary landmarks. 

William Taylor Adams (1822-1897), dear as "Ohver Optic" to 
the boys of a generation ago, hved at 1479 Dorchester Avenue at the 
time of his death. The house is no longer standing. At 55 Lynd- 
hurst Street, years ago, lived Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828-1899), 
grandson of Lyman Beecher, and father of Charlotte (Perkins) Stet- 
son (now Oilman). He was an accomplished librarian, editor, and 
bibhographer. ("Scrope, or the Lost Library," besides "Devil- 
Puzzlers, and other Studies," and " Charles Dickens: his Life and 
Works.") 

Edward Payson Jackson (i 840-1905). At 41 Lyndhurst Street. 
Educator, author, and writer for magazines. (" Character Build- 
ing;" "The Earth in Space;" also a novel, "A Demigod.") Jef- 
ferson Lee Harbour (1857- ), formerly on the staff of the " Youth's 
Companion," and writer of many short stories, hves at 3 Bowdoin 
Avenue. Maria Susanna Cummins, author of " The Lamphghter," 
died in Dorchester in 1866. See Salem. 

ROXBURY 

When the residents of the old city of Roxbury became (by an- 
nexation in 1868) citizens of Boston, the latter acquired rights of 
proprietary pride in a worthy list of Roxbury names. John Eliot 
(1604-1690), the Apostle to the Indians, whose remains He in the 
ancient and well-nigh forgotten burying-ground at the corner of 
Washington and Eustis streets, may fitly be said to head the roll of 
Roxbury's literary fame, while Edward Everett Hale, in his home 
on Highland Street, only a few steps from the present home of John 
Eliot's first charge, — the First Religious Society of Roxbury, — 
represented it as few of the present day could. ' 



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31 



Eliot's permanent claim to remembrance in letters as well as in 
history is his translation of the Bible into the Indian tongue (copies 
of the editions of 1663 and 1685 are in the Public Library), but his 
Indian Grammar, his Indian Primer, " The Glorious Progress of the 
Gospel amongst the Indians," are memorable too. Nor may we 




THE FIRST CHURCH IN ROXBURY 
Present Home of John Eliot's First Charge 



forget that Eliot made Baxter's " Call to the Unconverted " familiar 
to the Indians under the title of " Wehkomaonganoo asquam Peauto- 
gig Kah asquam Quinnuppegig." 

Dr. Hale's literary activity covered a long reach of time and a wide 
field of accompHshments. To mention him is to recall his master- 
piece, "The Man without a Country;" then, omitting to recount 
his many contributions to history, biography, and philanthropy, 
there come to mind his latest and ripest, " A New England Boy- 
hood;" "James Russell Lowell and his Friends;" and "Memories 
of a Hundred Years." In this Highland Street home, now moved 
several rods from its original location, have sojourned for long pe- 
riods his sister, Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820-1900), and his son, 
Edward Everett Hale, Jr. (1863- ), who has written " James Rus- 
sell Lowell;" "Ballads and Ballad Poetry;" and with his father, 
" Franklin in France." 

Farther up Highland Street, at No. 125, the house now occupied 
by St. Monica's Home, lived William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), 



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the living soul of the anti-slavery cause. Though eloquent himself, 
he made, as editor of " The Liberator," the press the chief agency of 
his purpose, while Phillips and Sumner relied mainly on their match- 
less oratory. ( " Thoughts on African Colonization; " " Sonnets and 
Other Poems.") 

At 2 Linwood Square (off Linwood Street and between Highland 
and Centre streets) lived Jane Goodwin Austin (i 831-1894), the 
author of a series of romances relating to the Pilgrims and their 
descendants, of considerable hterary importance. ("A Nameless 
Nobleman; " " Standish of Standish; " " Dr. LeBaron and his Daugh- 
ters;" etc.) See Concord. 

Julius H. Ward (183 7-1 89 7) lived at 23 Linwood Street. Clergy- 
man, author, and long on the staff of the '' Boston Herald." ( " Life 
and Letters of James Gates Percival;" "The Church in Modern 
Society;" " Life of Bishop White.") See also Brookline. 

No. 16 Warren Place. William Adolphus Wheeler (1833-1874), 
librarian and bibliographical scholar, who edited an abridgment of 
Webster's Dictionary, and compiled the useful "Dictionary of the 
Noted Names of Fiction," and "FamiUar Allusions." 

Warren Street, corner Regent. ("The Warren.") Henry Wood 
(1834-1909), a writer on psychological and economic themes, and 
also a novehst. ("Edward Burton" and "Victor Severus," novels; 
"The Political Economy of Natural Law;" etc.) Moved later to 
Cambridge. 

No. 144 Dudley Street. John Preston True (1859- )• A popu- 
lar writer of juveniles. Now lives at Waban. ("The Iron Star;" 
"Scouting for Light Horse Harry;" etc.) 

No. I Atherton Place. Katherine Eleanor Conway (1853- )• 
Poet and journalist. ("Songs of the Sunrise Slope;" "Lalor's 
Maples;" "Way of the World;" etc.) 

No. 52 Atherton Street. Helen Maria Winslow (185 1- ). Au- 
thor and journahst. ("The Shawsheen Mills; " " Concerning Cats; " 
"Literary Boston of To-Day;" etc.) Now at Shirley, Mass. 

No. 10 Rockville Park. This was the home of Samuel Gardner 
(i 798-1875) and his sons, Francis Samuel (1828-1885) and Samuel 
Adams Drake (1833-1905), all men of strong and similar literary 
and antiquarian tastes and accomplishments. S. G. Drake, besides 
editing several historical works, wrote "History and Antiquities of 
Boston;" "Annals of Witchcraft in New England;" and numerous 
works on the Indians. F. S. Drake, whose "Dictionary of American 
Biography" has been incorporated in "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of 
Biography," was also the author of a "Life of General Knox," a his- 
tory of the "Town of Roxbury," etc. His brother, S. A. Drake, 



WEST ROXBURY 33 

who lived in Maine, was the author of a large number of historico- 
antiquarian works, among which "Old Landmarks and Historic 
Personages of Boston," "Nooks and Corners of the New England 
Coast," and "Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Mid^llesex" 
are memorable. F. S. Drake also hved, after his father's death, 
at No. 3 Mt. Warren Street. 

In the house at the corner of Moreland and Fairland streets lived 
Epes Sargent (1812-1880), the author of the famiHar poem "Life on 
the Ocean Wave." He was once a prominent poet, dramatist, and 
novelist, and compiler of a series of Standard Readers and Spellers. 
Among his works are "PecuHar: A Tale of the Great Transition;" 
"Velasco, A Tragedy;" "The Woman who Dared;" "Songs of the 
Sea." 

No. 59 Waverley Street. Charles Follen Adams (1842-1918). 
Best and deservedly remembered as the author of "Leedle Yawcob 
Strau$s, and Other Poems;" "Dialect Ballads;" and the hke. 

WEST ROXBURY AND BROOK FARM 

Although in the wide territory comprised by Jamaica 
Plain, Forest Hills, and West Roxbury, there are several 
names of importance and interest, which will be briefly 
summarized below, the crowning feature in the annals, 
historical and literary, of this picturesque district of the 
city is "Brook Farm." This beautiful but unfertile es- 
tate, comprising originally about 1 70 acres, was bought on 
a mortgage for $10,500. In the spring of 184 1, George 
Ripley and his wife, with a few other chosen spirits, began 
the new life there. The Association, which was in no 
sense a Socialistic Community, was later and formally 
known as the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and 
Education. In May, 1845, it became the Brook Farm 
Phalanx, under a modified form of Fourierism, and de- 
clined in influence and prosperity from that time until 
1847, when it ceased to exist as an experiment. The ex- 
cellent school, the farming, and various small industries 
were the means of livelihood. Among the members who 
later in life achieved distinction in literature and other 
pursuits were George Ripley, for years a successful editor 
in New York; Charles A. Dana, editor of the "New York 



34 WEST ROXBURY 

Sun;" John S. Dwight, musical critic; and Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, whose "Blithedale Romance" gives the 
effect if not the substance of Brook Farm life, as the 
great romancer found it. Among the frequent visitors 
and in a measure identified with the venture were Emer- 
son, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, W. H. Channing, Orestes 
A. Brownson, Theodore Parker, C. P. Cranch, Albert 
Brisbane, and Elizabeth P. Peabody. Eminent among 
the many bright scholars were the two Curtises, George 
WilHam and Burrill, and Isaac T. Hecker, later a Paul- 
ist Father. Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz and Georgiana 
Bruce, afterwards Mrs. Kirby, were among the teachers. 
The building first met on entering the estate is now the 
Martin Luther Orphan Home, and rests on the founda- 
tions of the old "Hive," one of the important centres 
of the Brook Farm life. The only community build- 
ing now standing is the cottage some distance inside 
the estate. It is mistakenly called the " Margaret Fuller " 
Cottage. On the highest point are the traces of the cel- 
lar of the Eyry, where Hved the Ripleys, Miss Bruce, the 
Curtises, and the eccentric Charles Newcomb. Below 
this site and toward the entrance, on a sandbank, one may 
find faint evidences that here once stood a long, narrow 
building. It was the famous Phalanstery, and its destruc- 
tion by fire in 1846 hastened the ruin of the enterprise. 
Brook Farm may be reached by taking a " Charles River" 
car from Forest Hills and walking through Baker Street 
for about a mile, or one may get out at Highland station 
and take an automobile. A visitor will be repaid by going 
to this famous spot, but the impression received there is 
in part a melancholy one, for everything speaks of a once 
briUiant experiment, now hopelessly a thing of the past. 

A few of the literary names of the past and the present of the 
West Roxbury district are as follows: In Jamaica Plain, — the Rev. 
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888), on Woodside Avenue; Rev. 
Charles F. Dole (1845- ), 14 Roanoke Avenue; Nathan Haskell 
Dole (1852- ), 12 Dane Street; Elizabeth P. Peabody, who died in 



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Jamaica Plain; Caroline Ticknor, 15 Harris Avenue; Fanny E. 
Coe, 4 Brewer Street, writer of children's stories; Edwin Las- 
setter Bynner (1842-1893), the author of "Agnes Surriage," and 
other historical fiction of a high order; Ednah Dow (Littlehale) 
Cheney (1824-1904), the biographer of Louisa M. Alcott, 117 Forest 
Hills Street. In West Roxbury, — Theodore Parker, on Centre 
Street, near the Spring Street station. Down Centre Street toward 
Boston formerly stood Theodore Parker's Church, during his first 
ministry from 1837 to 1846. His statue is in front of the present 
Unitarian Church, corner of Centre and Corey streets. 

CHARLESTOWN 

This rather out-of-the-way district of Boston — once a 
city apart — has had much more to do with the making 
of history than of Hterature. Yet Charlestown has borne, 
bred, or harbored a notable, if small, array of writers. 

Among those of whom there are left no domestic memorials in the 
old town are James Walker (i 794-1874), minister at Charlestown, 
1818-1838, President of Harvard University, 1853-1860; author of 
"Lectures on Natural Religion," and "Lectures on the Philosophy 
of Religion," etc.; Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (i 793-1870), 
father of Octavius Brooks and Ellen Frothingham (see Marlborough 
Street, and Commonwealth Avenue), and master of a singularly 
graceful and refined style, displayed in such works as "Deism of 
Christianity," "Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth," and 
"Metrical Pieces, Original and Translated;" Richard Frothingham 
(1812-1880), editor of the "Boston Morning Post" from 1852 until 
1865, and a marked contributor to local annals by his "History of 
the Siege of Boston," his "History of Charlestown," etc. 

At No. 34 Winthrop Street lived for many years John Boyle 
O'Reilly (1844-1890), poet, editor, patriot, and wit. He was long 
editor of "The Pilot." Although some of his work is ephemeral, 
much of it is true poetry. 

In the old Edes House, 201 Main Street, lived for a time "The 
Father of American Geography," Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826). 
As an author he is best known by his "Elements of Geography," 
"Annals of the American Revolution," "A Compendious History of 
New England," and "American Gazetteer." In this Main Street 
house also, as a tablet affixed to its wall relates, was born Jedidiah 
Morse's preeminent son, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), 
the inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph. The son's fame as 



36 CAMBRIDGE 

an inventor overshadows the rest of his life, yet he was bred as a 
painter, and some of his portraits and genre paintings are among the 
best specimens of American art. Among his writings, always of a 
serious turn, are "Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the 
United States," and "Our Liberties Defended." 

Farther down Main Street, at the corner of Dunstable, stands the 
house in which that influential preacher and writer, the Rev. Thomas 
Starr King (1824- 1864) passed part of his boyhood and young man- 
hood. ("The White Hills, a Volume of Travel in the White Moun- 
tains;" "Patriotism and Other Papers;" "Christianity and Hu- 
manity.") Many of his manuscripts are in the Boston Public 
Library. 

In the old Bell House, at the southerly corner of Elm and High 
streets, lived, until 1896, the antiquarian and local historian, Henry 
Herbert Edes (1849- ), who has pubhshed " Charlestown's His- 
toric Points;" "History of the Harvard Church in Charlestown, 
1815-1879;" etc. Now in Cambridge. 

Lastly, to wander excusably to one of the allied arts, it may be 
noted that Charlotte Cushman, one of the last hereditary queens 
of the stage, lived for several years during her girlhood in the build- 
ing next to the corner of Main and Walker streets, the lower story 
of which is now used as a grocery store. (" Charlotte Cushman: 
her Letters and Memories of her Life. Edited by her Friend, Emma 
Stebbins.") 

CAMBRIDGE 

The city of Cambridge has contained since 1636 the 
chief seat of learning in the country. It can readily be 
conceived, then, that Cambridge is and has been the home 
of almost countless literary workers. A large class of 
writers is recruited from Harvard University alone, — 
a class so large that this little ^'olume will not make any 
attempt to deal with it, but rather refer its readers to the 
"Official Guide to Harvard University" (Cambridge, 
1 91 7), which gives the names and addresses of professors 
and instructors. Practically all of these may be said to 
have written books, sometimes on more or less technical 
subjects, and as often not. Of the other class of authors, 
— those drawn hither by the culture of a University town, 
or native to it, those now dead, or not officially connected 



CAMBRIDGE 37 

with the University, — only the most important are, for 
lack of space, here referred to. It may be further worth 
noting that among the numerous men of eminence whose 
bodies rest in Mount Auburn are Agassiz, Longfellow, 
Lowell, Parkman, and Sumner. 

For a fuller account of the houses and names in Cam- 
bridge, Mr. Edwin M. Bacon's "Historic Pilgrimages" 
and "Literary Pilgrim.ages " will be found entertaining 
and trustworthy. 

No. 71 Cherry Street. This was the birthplace of (Sarah) Mar- 
garet Fuller, Marchesa d' Ossoli (18 10-1850), who is to-day less a 
force than a memory in our literature. She was a prominent figure 
as editor of the " Dial," as literary critic for " The New York Trib- 
une," and as a teacher. This house, now a Settlement House, and 
the old " Brattle Mansion," on Brattle Street, occupied at present 
by the American Red Cross and the Social Union, are all that are 
left of her several Cambridge homes. ("Woman in the Nineteenth 
Century;" "At Home and Abroad.") 

Wadsworth House. One of the University buildings facing on 
Massachusetts Avenue, but inside the "Yard." Built 1726-17 2 7. 
Called the "President's House," because officially occupied by suc- 
cessive presidents of the University until 1849. I^ i775 it was oc- 
cupied for a short time by Generals Washington and Lee, and Wash- 
ington's earlier despatches to Congress, to Richard Henry Lee, and 
to General Schuyler were written here. Emerson (see Concord) 
lived here when he was "President's Freshman." 

" The Bishop's Palace," on Linden Street, is so nicknamed on 
account of the famous controversy over the establishment of the 
Anglican Episcopate in America, one end of which was waged from 
this house by the Reverend East Apthorp shortly before the Revo- 
lution. In this house also that author of skits and farces, Lieu- 
tenant-General John Burgoyne, lived on parole after his defeat on 
the plains of Saratoga. 

No. 90 Brattle Street, corner Ash Street, is the new home which 
John Fiske, historian and philosopher, built just before his death, 
but in which he never lived. It is now occupied by his widow. At 
the time of his death he lived at 22 Berkeley Street. ("Works, " 24 
vols., 1902.) 

No. 105 Brattle Street. "The Craigie," or the "Longfellow," 
House. Occupied, first in part and then as a whole, by Henry Wads- 
worth Longfellow (1807-1882) for forty-five years. When he came 



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to Cambridge in 1836 he lived for a year on Kirkland Street. The 
next year (1837) he moved to the Craigie House, taking rooms, one 
of which had been occupied by Washington after he left Wadsworth 




CRAIGIE HOUSE 
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House. In 1841, Joseph Emerson Worcester (see also Salem), the 
famous lexicographer and philologist, leased and lived in the house, 
Longfellow keeping his rooms. Shortly afterwards Longfellow 
bought the house, and Worcester moved a little way down the street 
nearer Brattle Square, where his house still stands. Beside Long- 
fellow, Washington, and Worcester, there have lived at different 
times in the Craigie House such men as Edward Everett, Willard 
Phillips, and Jared Sparks. Longfellow is so world-widely known 
that the mention of his "Works" in fourteen volumes will be sugges- 
tion enough. 

Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892), author of a life of his brother, 
the poet, a memoir of Samuel Johnson, and a number of spirited 
hymns and poems, lived at No. 76, a little further down the street. 

No. 2 Riedesel Avenue. H(enry) Addington Bruce (1874- ). 
Author. ("The Riddle of Personality;" "Scientific Mental Heal- 



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39 



ing;" ''Psychology and Parenthood;" "Nerve Control and how to 
Gain it.") 

No. 149 Brattle Street. Frederike Charlotte Luise, Freiherrin 
von Riedesel (i 746-1808), and her husband, Baron Riedesel, who 




ELMWOOD, HOME OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 
CAMBRIDGE 

commanded the Brunswickers under Burgoyne, lodged in this house 
as prisoners on parole. Her interesting "Letters and Journals" 
give her a place here. 

No. 192 Brattle Street. Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. L. S. 
Marks), author of many volumes of verse. "The Piper," drama, 
won the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 19 10. 

No. 5 Clement Circle. Bliss Perry (i860- ). Author, editor, 
and Professor of English Literature at Harvard University since 
1907. ("The Powers at Play;" "A Study of Prose Fiction;" "Walt 
Whitman;" etc.) 

"Elmwood," on Elmwood Avenue, not far from the entrance to 
Mount Auburn, was the home from birth to death, with intervals of 
separation, of James Russell Lowell (18 19-189 1). He was one of 
the founders, and editor, 1857-1862, of the "Atlantic Monthly;" 
and co-editor, with Charles Eliot Norton (see "Shady Hill"), 1863- 
1872, of the "North American Review." Minister to Spain and 
England, 1877-1885. His "Writings," which of themselves con- 
stitute a treasure-house of native American belles-lettres, are pub- 



40 CAMBRIDGE 

li shed in eleven volumes. Maria (White) Lowell (1821-1853), his 
first wife, was a writer of some fine verse. ("Poems.") In this 
house Thomas Bailey Aldrich (see Boston: Charles, Mt. Vernon, 
and Pinckney streets) lived for two years. 

No. I Berkeley Street. Basil King (1859- )• Author. (''Inner 
Shrine;" ''Wild Olive;" "The Lifted Veil;" etc.) 

No. 8 Berkeley Street. William Roscoe Thayer (1859-). 
Author. ("Life and Times of Cavour;" "Life and Letters of John 
Hay;" "Theodore Roosevelt;" etc.) 

At No. 37 Concord Avenue lived nearly through the seventies 
William Dean Howells (see Boston: Beacon Street, and Louisburg 
Square). 

No. 17 Buckingham Street. Horace E. Scudder (1838-1902). 
Author, and editor of the "Atlantic Monthly." ("The Bodley 
Books;" "Men and Letters;" "James Russell Lowell.") 

No. 29 Buckingham Street. Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
(1823-1911). Ever in active literary service through his delightful 




HOME OF THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON 
CAMBRIDGE 

yet keen reminiscences of his contemporaries and of his own busy, 
useful life as minister, soldier, author, and reformer. ("Old Cam- 
bridge;" "Cheerful Yesterdays;" "Life of Margaret Fuller;" "Mal- 
bone;" etc.) This house was Colonel Higginson's home until his 



CAMBRIDGE 41 

death. His birthplace stands at the upper end of Kirkland Street, 
facing Memorial Hall. His wife, Mary P. Thacher Higginson, 
who survives him, is still living in the Buckingham Street home. 
(''Thomas Wentworth Higginson;" "The Playmate Hours;" etc.) 

No. 8 Ash Street Place. Morris Schaff (1840- ). Author, and 
veteran of the Civil War. ("Spirit of Old West Point;" "Battle 
of the Wilderness;" etc.) 

" Fay House," on Garden Street, one of the buildings of Radclifife 
College, is notable if only because such men as Professor McKean, 
Edward Everett, and Francis Dana (the son of the Chief Justice) 
lived in it at different periods between 1810 and 1835. But it was 
here that the Rev. Samuel Gilman of Charleston, S.C, the brother- 
in-law of Judge Fay, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary cele- 
bration of the University in 1836, wrote the famous song of "Fair 
Harvard." 

Cambridge Street. "Felton Hall," opposite the Public Library. 
Frederick Grin Bartlett (1876- ). Author. ("Mistress Dorothy;" 
"The Forest Castaways;" "Joan & Co;" etc.) 

No. 20 Oxford Street. Samuel McChord Crothers (1857- ). 
Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge, since 1894, and a delightful 
essayist. ("The Gentle Reader;" "Humanly Speaking;" "Three 
Lords of Destiny;" etc.) 

No. 30 Oxford Street was the home of John Gorham Palfrey 
( 1 796-1881). Clergyman, Professor of Sacred Literature at Har- 
vard University, Member of Congress, and Postmaster of Boston, 
1861-1867. His master-work is his comprehensive "History of 
New England," in five volumes. Other works by him are "Lowell 
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity" (2 vols.), and "The 
Relation between Judaism and Christianity." 

In this house lived his daughter, Sarah Hammond Palfrey (1823- 
1914), novelist and verse writer, who wrote under the name of 
E. Foxton. ("King Arthur in Avalon;" "The Chapel, and Other 
Poems;" "Herman, or Young Knighthood;" etc.) 

"Shady Hill," in "Norton's Woods," off Irving Street, is the 
home of Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908). Among his works are 
"Notes of Travel and Study in Italy," and " Historical Church- 
Building in the Middle Ages," and his translations from Dante. 
He edited, moreover, the "Reminiscences," "Letters," and cor- 
respondence of Carlyle (his personal friend) with Emerson and 
Goethe; and also some of the literary remains of two other friends, 
Curtis and Lowell. No American has been richer in his intellec- 
tual intimacies than Mr. Norton. In this house his father, An- 
drews Norton (i 786-1 853), lived before him. He was, like Palfrey, 



42 CONCORD 

Professor of Sacred Literature at Harvard, and wrote "Internal 
Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels," etc. 

No. 67 Kirkland Street, once called Professors' Row, is the home 
of Francis James Child (182 5- 1896), who long held the Professor- 
ship of English Literature in the College, and who was, and still 
remains, the foremost authority on ballad literature. He edited 
the American Edition of the British Poets in 130 vols.; also "The 
English and Scottish Popular Ballads," in 5 vols. 

No. 48 Quincy Street, now occupied by the Theological School of 
the New Jerusalem Church, was for his last twenty years the home 
of Jared Sparks (i 789-1866), Professor of History at Harvard, 
1839-1849, and President of the University, 1849-1853. He edited 
a "Library of American Biography," comprising some sixty lives, 
but is best known in letters as the editor of the works of Washington 
and Franklin. 

No. II Quincy Street was the home of the Rev. Andrew Preston 
Peabody (1811-1893), long Plummer Professor of Christian Morals 
at the University. ("Moral Philosophy; " " Reminiscences of Euro- 
pean Travel.") This house was the old Dana Mansion, and was 
formerly occupied by Cornelius Conway Felton (i 807-1 862), Presi- 
dent of Harvard University. His translations from the Greek will 
always remain noteworthy. ("Greece, Ancient and Modern;" 
" Familiar Letters from Europe.") George Herbert Palmer (1842- 

) now lives here, as did his wife, Alice Freeman Palmer, till her 
death in 1902. ("The Field of Ethics;" translation of the "Odys- 
sey;" etc.) 

No. 1 7 Quincy Street. Abbot Lawrence Lowell (1856- ) . Pres- 
ident of University since 1909. ("Essays on Government;" "The 
Government of England;" "Opinion and Popular Government;" 
"The Governments of France, Italy and Germany.") See Marl- 
borough Street. 

Fresh Pond Parkway. Charles William Eliot (1834- ). Presi- 
dent of Uni versi ty ( 1 869- 1 909 ) . (" Charles Eliot, Landscape Archi- 
tect;" "American Contributions to Civilization;" "Educational 
Reform: Essays and Addresses.") 

No. 33 Washington Avenue. Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868- 
1920). Author. ("PoUyanna;" "Just David;" "Oh, Money, 
Money;" "Mary-Marie;" "Sister Sue.") 

CONCORD 

Concord and Lexington, in the popular imagination, 
stand closely related, though they are several miles apart. 



CONCORD 43 

Historically they may always divide honors even, but in 
our literary annals Lexington is as barren of monuments 
as Concord is full of them. If we may fancifully think 
of Boston as the mind of Puritanism, so is Concord the 
soul of it, for here transcendentalism found fullest expres- 
sion, and here plain living and high thinking were realized 
ideals. All the memorable men and women of the golden 
age of Concord are now dead, yet their lives are some- 
thing more vital than memories. The town is not differ- 
ent in essence from what it was when Emerson, Haw- 
thorne, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, William EUery Chan- 
ning, and the Alcotts, father and daughter, gave it 
preeminence in the world of American letters. What 
they brought here, for Thoreau alone was Concord-born, 
took root and spread, until the growth became so firm 
that it has outlived the span of their lives, and is not soon 
likely to disappear. 

Assuming that the visitor will make inquiries for 
himself, let us go at once to the most famous literary 
shrine in Concord, and possibly in America. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) went to this house in 1835, 
and there he Hved for forty-seven years, until his death in 1882. 
The house is square, two-storied, entirely without architectural 
adornment. It faces the turnpike, and stands among pine trees. 
In the rear is a garden, speaking eloquently of by-gone taste in flow- 
ers. The house was but seven years old when Emerson moved into 
it, and it has suffered but little change, though it was partially 
burned in 1873. The most notable room is the study on the right 
as one enters the hall which divides the first story, where, so far as 
possible, an undisturbed effect has been preserved. Miss Ellen 
Emerson, the philosopher's daughter, long lived here. His son, 
Dr. Edward W. Emerson, is still a resident of the town. In the 
cut opposite, Mr. Emerson is standing near the porch. 

The " Old Manse." Hardly less important, and more fair to see, 
is the "Old Manse," the home of the Rev. William Emerson, Emer- 
son's grandfather, then of Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley (1751-1841), who 
married William Emerson's widow. Dr. Ripley pubhshed a "His- 
tory of the Fight at Concord," besides many sermons. In their day, 
it was, as the name implies, the parsonage of Concord. Built in 



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CONCORD 



1765, it is now a home for some of Dr. Riple/s descendants. Here, 
just before his second marriage (to Miss Lydia Jackson) in 1835, 
Emerson boarded (1834-1835) with his grandparents, and here too 
his family repaired for a time after the partial burning of his own 
house. On his marriage with Miss Sophia Peabody in July, 1842, 
and after his experience at Brook Farm, Nathaniel Hawthorne (see 
also Salem) also made the "Old Manse" his home, and lived there 
till 1846, when he went to Salem. Mr. Bacon, in his "Walks and 
Rides," tells us that the most satisfactory view of the "Manse" 




HOME OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON 
CONCORD 

is of the back from the river side, and that the decaying orchard in 
the rear was set out by Dr. Ripley. Hawthorne's study was on the 
second floor over the dining-room, and here Emerson wrote one of 
his greatest essays, "Nature," and from here William Emerson^s 
wife saw the fight at Concord Bridge. 

The "Wayside," where Hawthorne had his residence from 1852 
till his death in 1864, is next in importance. Iii 1845, A. Bronson 
Alcott (i 799-1888) bought this estate, calling it "Hillside," and 
sold it later to Hawthorne, who gradually adorned the surroundings 
to suit his own taste, and on his return from Italy made some im- 
portant changes in the house itself, enlarging it and adding the 
tower-like structure which served as his study and, what was more 



CONCORD 45 

essential, his hiding-place. The Library stood on the first floor, but 
Hawthorne was not a man of many books. At the " Wayside " now 
lives Mrs. Harriett Mulford Lothrop (1844- ), who, under the name 
of "Margaret Sidney," has put forth many books for children, chief 
among them the famous "Five Little Peppers." Her husband and 
the publisher of her works, the late Daniel Lothrop, bought "Way- 
side " in 1881, after it had for a short time been occupied by George 
P. Lathrop (see Chestnut Street, Boston) and his wife (Hawthorne's 
daughter. Rose). For some time after Hawthorne's death, "Way- 
side" was used as a boarding-school for girls. The original struc- 
ture was built before the Revolution. 

The Orchard House. In 1857, Alcott, through the efforts of his 
wife and friends, came into possession of "Orchard House," on the 
"Boston Road," with which his memory is most closely identified. 
This house dates back in part over two hundred years, but has been 
remodeled. "Little Women," the foundation of the Alcott fortunes, 
was written in Orchard House, where also were held some of Bronson 
Alcott's monologuizing "conversations," and Mrs. May Nieriker 
(1840-1879) , another of the Alcott daughters, had her studio. Close 
by the Orchard House, which was a home for the Alcotts for nearly 
thirty years, stands the equally famous, though more modern, "Hill- 
side Chapel," where, after the preliminary session in the Orchard 
House, were held from 1879 to 1888 the summer meetings of the 
"Concord School of Philosophy and Literature." Dr. William T. 
Harris later owned the place. 

Henry David Thoreau (18 17-1862). Of all who made Concord 
so famous, Thoreau was the only native of the soil. He was born 
some distance to the east from the village limits, in a house still 
standing on the Virginia Road, In the house on Main Street, near 
Thoreau Street, the Thoreaus lived for twelve years until his death; 
previously to that they lived in a house on the village square. The 
Thoreaus, in 1844, lodged the afterwards famous PauHst Father, 
Isaac Thomas Hecker, for seventy-five cents a week, "with lights." 
For two years in the forties, Thoreau lived in Emerson's house. 
After this, for a little over two years, he lived on the shore of Walden 
Pond, south of the village, in his " hermitage," built in part of timber 
from Emerson's wood-lot. A cairn of stone marks the site of this 
remote philosophical observatory, which cost its builder just $28.12^ 
and was "raised" by the united labors of Thoreau, Emerson, George 
William Curtis, and sympathetic friends. The bed, chair, and table 
used at the Walden hut are in the Concord Antiquarian Society's 
keeping. Thoreau's sister, Sophia, was a superior and able woman, 
and it is a joy to the present writer that from her he learned his 



46 CONCORD 

Greek alphabet. ("Walden;" "A Week on the Concord and Mer- 
rimack Rivers;" "Cape Cod;" etc.) 

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917). The death of W. E. 
Channing, the poet, left Mr. Sanborn the last leaf on the Concord 
tree. His house is on Elm Street, leading from Main Street. As a 
biographer of several of the most eminent Concord names, he may 
be said to hold a brief for Concord and all that it represents. 

William EUery Channing (1818-1902). The poet and recluse, 
"making his wardrobe last beyond the hopes of his friends," to use 
Mr. Sanborn's words, was a nephew of the Rev. William Ellery 
Channing, and the brother-in-law of Margaret Fuller. He lived 
opposite Thoreau's last home, and died in his friend Sanborn's house. 




HOME OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU 
CONCORD 

("Poems of Sixty-five Years. Edited by F. B. Sanborn;" "Tho- 
reau, the Poet-Naturalist.") Channing's house was, early in his 
Concord career, the home of Sanborn, and John Brown was here 
entertained by him. Later on this spot was the home of Frederic 
Hudson (1819-1875), where, after a connection of thirty years with 
the "New York Herald," he came to end his days. ("Journalism 
in the United States, 1670-1872.") 

George William Curtis (1824-1892) and his brother, Burrill Cur- 
tis, after their rather playful experience at Brook Farm, went to 
Concord in 1844, first to the farm of Captain Nathan Barrett, a mile 
south of the village, on Punkatasset Hill, and then to the farm of 
Edmund Hosmer, about a mile from Emerson's house. Among 
other Brook Farmers at Concord were George P. Bradford, Minot 



CONCORD 47 

Pratt, and Mrs. Almira Barlow. The most eminent outsider iden- 
tified with Concord is Margaret Fuller (see also Cambridge), the 
sister-in-law of Channing the poet, and the friend of Emerson and 
Alcott. Her connection with the Transcendental movement, and 
her editorial work on the "Dial," brought her here to one or another 
of her friends' homes, and especially to Emerson's. 

The Hoar Family. Nearly opposite the Public Library on Main 
Street is the mansion where once lived Samuel Hoar (i 778-1856), 
an eminent citizen and statesman of Massachusetts. His two sons, 
Ebenezer Rock wood Hoar (18 16-1895), and George Frisbie Hoar 
(1826-1904), were born in this house. Judge Hoar published little, 
but his forcible and brilliant sayings and the anecdotes told of him 
almost form a Hterature of themselves. Senator Hoar, besides his 
scholarly addresses and orations, wrote several short biographical 
memoirs, but no extended work has come from either of these dis- 
tinguished men. 

Jane Goodwin Austin (1831-1894). On Main Street, corner of 
Belknap Street. Subsequently in Linwood Square, Roxbury (which 
see) . The house afterwards passed into the hands of Charles Hos- 
mer Walcott, author of "Concord in the Colonial Period" and "Sir 
Archibald Campbell of Inverneill," — a sketch of one of the British 
prisoners of war in Concord jail. James Lyman Whitney (1835- 
19 10), formerly Librarian of the Boston Public Library, and eminent 
in bibliography, has also lived in this house. Shortly before his 
death in New Haven, William James Linton (181 2-1898) spent 
some little time in this home of Mrs. Austin. He was the husband 
of the English novelist, Eliza Lynn Linton, and himself a poet and 
wood engraver. ("History of Wood-Engraving in America;" 
"Claribel, and Other Poems.") 

Samuel Merwin, (1874- ). Author, editor. ("Anthony the 
Absolute;" "The Honey Bee;" "Temperamental Henry;" etc.) 

Allen French (1870- ). On Nashawtuc Road. Author of "The 
Colonials;" "The Golden Eagle;" "Old Concord;" etc. 

Other names which have to a greater or less degree honored the 
roll of Concord are the Rev. Grindall Reynolds (1822-1894), Ed- 
ward Jarvis, the statistician (1803-1884), William WillderWheil- 
don, the antiquarian (1805-1892), William Stevens Robinson (1818- 
1876), who, under the signature of "Warrington," won a high place 
in journalism, Frederick West Holland and his son, Frederic May 
Holland (1836-1908), Judge John Shepard Keyes, and, so it is 
handed down, George Horatio Derby (1823-1861), better known as 
that excellent early humorist "John Phoenix," who is said to have 
worked here in his youth. 



48 SALEM 



SALEM 

" Salem they call the spot."' — Jones Very. 

A half-hour's ride from the North Station takes one 
to Salem, a city as well worth visiting for its literary as 
for its historical memories. Perhaps no other place in 
this country has the effect of being so '* complete." Its 
churches, schools, museums, libraries, its varied institu- 
tional equipment, and especially its private residences 
speak of an honorable and successful past, while the activ- 
ity of a modern manufacturing city gives no suggestion 
that Salem stops to rest on the laurels of its reputation. 
The fire which obHterated nearly one third of the city in 
1 91 4 destroyed almost no objects of historic importance. 
The burning of the tenement house district, however, 
rendered nearly 10,000 people homeless and the scars 
are still very visible. 

The accurate ''Visitors' Guide" to Salem, prepared by 
the Essex Institute, is almost indispensable. 

The first thought of a visitor to Salem is naturally di- 
rected to Nathaniel Hawthorne, for here he was born, 
here he met and wooed Miss Sophia Peabody, and here 
his lonely genius came to fruition, until it ripened into 
that most perfect of his creations, "The Scarlet Letter." 

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). Bom, July 4, 1804, in the 
northwest chamber, second story, of 27 Union Street, which was 
built before 1685 and is little changed since Hawthorne's day. 
From 1808 to 1818, and later on, especially in the thirties, he lived 
at 10 1/2-12 Herbert Street, in the rear of his birthplace. This 
house belonged to his maternal ancestors, the Mannings, and was 
built about 1790. In the southwest corner of the third story, best 
seen from Union Street, is the room "under the eaves" where "fame 
was won," for here he wrote the first volume of the "Twice Told 
Tales," and later completed the "Mosses from an Old Manse." 
In 1828-183 2 he lived at 26 Dearborn Street, now opposite its origi- 
nal site. After his marriage and return to Salem in 1846, he lived 
for sixteen months at 18 Chestnut Street, and then till 1849 at 14 



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49 



Mall Street. His study, where he wrote the "Snow Image" and 
" Scarlet Letter," is the front room of the third story. No. 53 Char- 
ter Street, called the "Dr. Grimshawe house," was the home where 
Sophia Peabody lived when Hawthorne sought her as his wife. It 
borders on one side of the Charter Street Cemetery, the oldest in 




BIRTHPLACE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
SALEM 



Salem, where are buried the witch-judge, " Colonel John Hathorne," 
an ancestor of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Nathaniel, brother of the 
famous Cotton Mather, who died at nineteen years of age of a pleth- 
ora of erudition. The House of the Seven Gables by popular but 
unverified tradition is 54 Turner Street. In the southwest front 
room of the Custom House (Derby Street), now modernized, Haw- 
thorne discharged his official duties as Surveyor of the Port. In 
this building were inspired the immortal "Scarlet Letter" and its 
hardly less famous introduction. See also Concord. 

Rev. William Bentley (1759-1819), theologian, politician, and 
linguist lived at 106 Essex Street. His diary in four volumes is a 
classic on Salem history of his period. 

William Hickling Prescott (i 796-1859), born in the Joseph Pea- 
body mansion (pictures of it are in the Essex Institute), on the site 
of the Essex Institute, 132 Essex Street. His portrait by J. Harvey 



so SALEM 

Young hangs in the State Normal School, junction of Lafayette 
Street and Loring Avenue. See also Boston: Beacon Street. 

Roger Williams (1599-1683). The oldest house in Salem is 310 
Essex, Hawthorne's "Main" Street, corner North Street. It was 
built before 1635, and was inhabited by Roger Williams, when he 
was minister of the First Church (1634-1635), before he fled to 
Rhode Island; later occupied by Jonathan Corwin, a judge during 
the witchcraft delusion, who afterwards bravely confessed his er- 
rors. Often called the Old Witch House. 

Although not coming strictly within the scope of this booklet, 
The Ropes House and Garden deserves mention here. It is located 
a few doors above the Old Witch House. The garden is one of the 
most beautiful in Salem and is a rare sample of old-fashioned Salem 
gardens. Open to the public on certain days. 

Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875), pastor of the First 
Church, and seventh mayor of Salem, lived at 313 Essex Street, and 
earlier on the corner of Church and Washington streets, hard by 
spots closely identified with the witchcraft period of which he is 
the authoritative historian. ("Salem Witchcraft," 2 vols.) 

Benjamin Thompson (i 753-1814), afterwards and better known 
as Count Rumford. Apprenticed to John Appleton in Salem in 
1766, he worked in a store at 314 Essex Street. See also Boston: 
North End. 

George Bailey Loring (1817-1891). Versed in the merits of sci- 
entific agriculture, and long prominent in national politics. (" Farm- 
yard Club of Jotham;" "A Year in Portugal;" and various pub- 
lished orations and historical studies.) Lived at 328 Essex Street, 
a house now much changed, 

William Frederick Poole (1821-1894), born in Salem, 133 Main 
Street (now within the limits of Peabody). Dr. Poole was eminent 
as a bibliographer, librarian, and historian, and particularly as the 
author of the useful "Poole's Index." His portrait hangs in the 
Library of the Essex Institute. 

Rev. Joseph Barlow Felt (i 789-1869), the historian of Salem 
("Annals of Salem," 2 vols.), and author of other important histori- 
cal works, among them "The Ecclesiastical History of New Eng- 
land." Lived at 27 Norman Street. 

Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880), renowned mathematician and as- 
tronomer, was born in Salem, at 35 Warren Street, in the " Tontine 
Block," destroyed in the Salem fire of 1914. 

Stephen C. Phillips (1801-1857), born in Salem and chosen second 
mayor of the city, member of Congress, for several years prominent 
in the antislavery movement and the first candidate of the Free Soil 



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SI 



Party for governor of Massachusetts. Lived at 29 Chestnut Street, 
one of the most beautiful houses in Salem. 

John Pickermg (i 777-1846), born in Salem, philologist, learned 
in about twenty-five languages, but especially in Greek and the 
American Indian dialects. He lived at 18 Chestnut Street, and was 
the son of the famous Timothy Pickering, who was born in Salem 
at 18 Broad Street, built probably as early as 165.9, ^nd one of Sa- 
lem's most picturesque mansions. 

Sarah West Lander (1819-1872), born in Salem, was the sister of 
General Frederick W. Lander, himself an author of patriotic verses 
and an intrepid soldier, and of Louisa Lander, the sculptor, both of 
whom were also born in Salem. Miss Lander was the author of a 
series of books of extraordinary popularity in their day, entitled, 
"Spectacles for Young Eyes," dealing with travels in foreign coun- 
tries. Lived at 5 Summer Street. 

Joseph Warren Fabens (1821-1875), born in Salem, consul at 
Cayenne and Nicaragua. He was the author of that popular song, 
"The Last Cigar," and other verses, and wrote "Story of Life in 
the Isthmus;" "The Camel Hunt;" and "In the Tropics." Lived 
at 22 High Street. 

Abner Cheney Goodell (1831-1914), editor of the Province Laws 
of Massachusetts, and author of historical and antiquarian works. 
He lived at 4 Federal Street, in a house into which is thought to be 
incorporated a part of the frame of the jail wherein the "witches" 
were confined, previous to the jail delivery of 1693. 

The Nichols House on Federal Street, near North Street, now 
owned by a board of trustees, is one of the best examples of the work 
of the famous Salem architect, Mackintire. 

Jones Very (1813-1880), born in Salem. His father's house was 
at the corner of Essex and Boston streets, but he lived for many 
years and died at 154 Federal Street. Of the poems of this Ameri- 
can quietist, Emerson said that they bear "the unquestionable 
stamp of grandeur," and of the poet himself, E. A. Silsbee said that 
"he moved in Salem like Dante among the Florentines." His 
younger sister, Lydia L. A. Very, a teacher, and author of several 
stories, lived at 154 Federal Street. Another sister and a brother 
were also of a literary turn. 

Joseph Emerson Worcester (i 784-1865), the lexicographer, at one 
time kept a school in a building, the site of which is in the yard of 
the First Baptist Church on Federal Street. Hawthorne was one 
of his pupils. See also Cambridge. 

Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), born in Salem, in a house now 
on Kimball Cotut, in the rear of its former site, No. 2 Brown Street. 



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In this house also was bom the Rev. Samuel Johnson (1822-1882), 
author of a learned work, "Oriental Religions: China, India, Per- 
sia," in 3 vols. Later Bowditch lived at 312 Essex Street. In the 
Essex Institute is the desk on which he translated the "Mecanique 




HOME OF JOSEPH AND WILLIAM WETMORE STORY 
SALEM 



Celeste " of La Place. His portrait, by Charles Osgood, is in the 
ofi&ce of the Salem Marine Society in the Franklin Building, corner 
of Essex Street and Washington Square. Author of "Bowditch's 
Navigator," the standard textbook for mariners all over the world 
for nearly a century. 

William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), sculptor and litterateur, 
born at 26 Winter Street, in the house built by his father, Judge 
Joseph Story, in 181 1. The cradle of these eminent men is in the 
Essex Institute. Judge Story's wooden law-office is, after sfeveral 
removes, now in Creek Street. 

Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883), born in Salem, in the house 
on the corner of Arbella and Bridge streets. Accomplished in many 
fields of literature, his reputation rests on his translations, particu- 
larly of Jean Paul Richter. Lived at 38 Washington Square. 

Edward Sylvester Morse (1838- ). Has Hved most of the time 
in Salem since 1866 at 12 Linden Street. A highly trained scientist, 
of great versatihty, and an expert in matters Japanese, especially 



BEVERLY 53 

pottery. His Japanese collection is now in the Museum of Fine 
Arts in Boston. 

George Barrell Cheever (1807-1890), a preacher of strong char- 
acter and convictions, who preached at the Howard Street Church, 
was as ardent a foe of slavery and intemperance as he was a warm 
apologist of the gallows. He wrote " Studies in Poetry," and "Jour- 
nal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth," and edited excellent anthologies 
of prose and poetry. 

In Salem also was born, in 1827, Maria S. Cummins, author, 
among other stories, of "The LampHghter," of which 40,000 copies 
were sold in two months. She died in Dorchester in 1866. 



SALEM INSTITUTIONS 

Essex Institute. 132 Essex Street. Contains about 450,000 vol- 
umes and many valuable manuscripts, besides furniture, utensils, 
costumes, arms, and other belongings of colonial days. Among the 
curiosities of every sort, reminiscent of a dignified past, the literary 
pilgrim will find of especial interest the desk on which Hawthorne 
wrote a part of "The Scarlet Letter," and the christening robes of 
Governor William Bradford, rendition of whose manuscript of the 
history of the "Phmoth- Plantation" to Massachusetts made so 
agreeable a sensation a few years ago. 

Peabody Academy of Science. loi Essex Street. Strong in col- 
lections of natural history and ethnology, besides relics of Salem 
when it held its high position as a shipping port. 

East India Marine Hall. loi Essex Street. A rare collection of 
relics of shipping days in Salem; contains the best collection of eth- 
nological specimens from Hawaii and the South Sea Islands in Amer- 
ica. 

Salem Athenaeum. 339 Essex Street. Contains about 30,000 
volumes; a private circulating library owned by the stock holders, 
and started about one hundred years ago. 

BEVERLY 

Beyond Salem and across the Beverly bridge lies Beverly. Here, 
at the corner of Main and Wallace streets, near the present Larcom 
Theatre, lived the poet, Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), who wrote, be- 
sides verses, "A New England Girlhood." The manuscript of her 
"Hannah Binding Shoes" is in the possession of the Beverly His- 
torical Society (Burley Mansion on Cabot Street). Lucy Larcom 
was a valued friend and literary associate of Whittier. Near the 



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BEVERLY 



Common stands the ancestral home and summer residence of George 
Edward Woodberry (1855- )> formerly Professor of Literature in 
Columbia University, poet, essayist, editor, and critic. ("Life of 
Edgar Allan Poe;" "Nathaniel Hawthorne;" "The North Shore 
Watch;" "The Heart of Man;" etc.) Beverly was also the home 




HOME OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 
AMESBURY 



of Frederick Albion Ober (1849-1913), naturalist, and author of 
works of travel and stories for young people. ("Knockabout Club" 
books; "Porto Rico;" "History of the West Indies;" etc.) 

Beverly was the birthplace of Whittier's friend, Robert Rantoul 
(1805-185 2), who was active in the introduction of the lyceum sys- 
tem, and a powerful opponent of the Fugitive-Slave Law. ("Me- 
moirs, Speeches, and Writings.") 

Beyond Beverly and near the Beverly Farms railroad station is 
the attractive but modest house where Oliver Wendell Holmes spent 
his summers; while beyond the limits set to this pilgrimage, and yet 
at no great distance from Boston or Salem, are three important liter- 
ary shrines — homes of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), one 
in Amesbury, one in Danvers, and his birthplace in East Haverhill, 
so graphically described in "Snow-Bound." The last of these is 
now owned by the Whittier Memorial Association, and, like the 
Amesbury house, is open to the public. 



BROOKLINE 55 

BROOKLINE 

Brookline, the wealthiest town in the country, and, it 
is said, in the world, in proportion to its population, and 
perhaps the most beautiful in Massachusetts, became 
a separate township in 1705, and has ever since made 
a most stubborn resistance to all appeals and pressure 
in favor of a union with Boston. On all sides have its 
sisters succumbed, until Brookline now is literally in the 
arms of its parent city even though not of it, being, with 
the exception of some two miles of Newton boundary, 
completely surrounded by Boston. Longwood, its north- 
eastern corner and one of its loveliest parts, is hardly to 
be distinguished from that portion of the Metropolitan 
Park System against which it Hes. In this coy suburb 
are scattered the homes of a number of authors who have 
helped to make and still contribute to the Hterature of 
Boston past and present. 

George S. Hillard (see Boston: Pinckney Street) spent the last 
three years of his life and died in Mountfort Street, Longwood. 
The Rev. Julius H. Ward (see Roxbury) had residence at 13 Wav- 
erly Street from 1890 until his death in 1897. The historian, George 
Makepeace Towle (i 841-1893), lived on Walnut Place and did much 
of his work here. ("The History of Henry the Fifth, King of Eng- 
land, Lord of Ireland and Heir of France;" "American Society;" 
"England in Egypt.") 

No. 380 Longwood Avenue. Borden Parker Bowne (1847-19 10) 
Formerly Professor of Philosophy in Boston University. ("Studies 
in Theism;" "The Principles of Ethics;" etc.) 

No. 19 Euston Street. Edwin Doak Mead (1849- )• Writer, 
lecturer, and editor (of the "Old South Leaflets" and the "Inter- 
national Library"). ("Martin Luther;" "The Philosophy of Car- 
lyle;" etc.) Also his wife, Lucia True (Ames) Mead (1856- ). 
("Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers;" "Memoirs of a Million- 
aire;" etc.) 

No. 99 Warren Street. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). 
Celebrated landscape architect, Secretary of the Sanitary Commis- 
sion during the Civil War. ("Walks and Talks of an American 
Farmer in England;" "A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States.") 



56 BROOKLINE 

Further down Warren Street is the estate of Charles Sprague 
Sargent (1841- ). An eminent arboriculturist. Editor of "Gar- 
den and Forest" from 1888 to 1897. ("The Silva of North Amer- 
ica; " "The Woods of the United States; " " Forest Flora of Japan.") 

No. 79 Heath Street. "Sevenels." Amy Lowell (1874- ). Sister 
of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University (see 
Cambridge). Imagist poet and advocate of Free Verse. ("Sword 
Blades and Poppy Seed;" "Men, Women, and Ghosts;" "Pictures 
of the Floating World;" etc.) 

On Clyde Street, just off Warren, is the home of the late James 
Elliot Cabot (1821-1903), whose principal work was "A Memoir 
of Ralph Waldo Emerson," in 2 vols, 

Avon Street. "Weld." Isabel Anderson (Mrs. Larz Anderson) 
(1876- ). Author. Mrs. Anderson's estate is one of the most 
attractive in the vicinity; visitors are allowed the privilege of view- 
ing her beautiful garden. ("The Great Sea Horse;" "The Spell of 
Japan;" "Zigzagging;" etc.) 

No. 3 Regent Circle. Edward H. Clement (1843-1920). Lived 
latterly at Concord, Mass. He was for years editor of the " Boston 
Transcript." ("Vinland," an Ode; etc.) 

No. 76 High Street. Edward Stanwood (1841- ). Journalist, 
author, and editor, especially of the "Youth's Companion." ("A 
History of the Presidency;" "History of Cotton Manufacture in 
New England;" etc.) 

No. 222 High Street. Eliza Ome White (1856- ). A writer 
of fiction. ("The Coming of Theodora;" "Miss Brooks.") 

No. 48 AUerton Street. Charles Knowles Bolton (1867- ) 
Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum (see Boston: Beacon Street). 
The son of Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, and himself the author of several 
books. ("The Private Soldier under Washington.") 

Just beyond BrookUne, in Newton Centre, was the winter home of 
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-19 11), one of the most eminent 
of American authors. She had also a summer residence in East 
Gloucester. ("The Gates Ajar;" "The Story of Avis;" "Dr. Zay;" 
"A Singular Life;" "The Story of Jesu3 Christ;" etc.) 

Arlington, like Newton, is outside the limit set to this pilgrimage, 
but it must at least be mentioned as the home of John Townsend 
Trowbridge (1827-1916), so popular as a writer of both prose and 
verse ("Cudjo's Cave;" "Jack Hazard;" "Coupon Bonds;" "The 
Vagabonds, and Other Poems;" etc.) 



INDEX 



Abbott, Jacob, 14. 

Adams, Charles Follen, 33. 

Adams, Charles Francis, to; C. F., Jr., 23. 

Adams, W. T. ("Oliver Optic"), 30. 

Agassiz, Alexander, 28. 

Alcott, A. B., 4, 13, 14, 34. 44. 45- 

Alcott, Louisa M., 12, 14, 15, 45. 

Aldrich, T. B.. 10, 15. 17. 40. 

Alger, Rev. W. R., and Abby L., 17. 

Allen, W. B., 26. 

Ames, Rev. C. G., 8. 

Amory, T. C, 25. 

Anderson, Mrs. Larz, 56. 

Appleton, T. G., 7, 25. 

Apthorp, W. F., 18. 

Austin, Jane G., 32, 47. 

Bacon, E. M., 14, 16, 37, 44. 

Ballou, M. M., 14, 17, 22. 

Bartlett, F. O., 41- 

Bartol, Rev. C. A. 8. 

Bates, Arlo, 9, 18; Harriet L., 9. 

Bentley, Rev. William, 49. 

Blake, Mary E., 5, 30: 

Bolton, C. K., 3, 56. 

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 51, 52. 

Bowne, B. P., 55. 

Brooks, C. T., 52. 

Brooks, Phillips, 27. 

Brown, Abbie F., 16. 

Brown, Alice, 9, 14. 

Bruce, H. A., 38. 

Burgess, F. G., 29. 

Burgoyne, Gen. John, 37, 39. 

Burton, Richard, 27. 

Butterworth, Hezekiah, 29. 

Bynner, E. L., 35- 

Cabot, J. E., 56. 

Channing, Rev. W. E.,ii; W.E. (poet), 46. 

Cheever, Rev. G. B., 53. 

Cheney, Ednah D., 35. 

Child, F. J., 42. 

Claflin, Mary B., 10. 

Clarke, Helen A., 17. 

Clarke, James Freeman, 8, 16, 21, 34. 

Clement, E. H., 56. 

Cocke, Zitella, 15. 

Coe, Fanny E., 35. 

Coffin, C. C, 27. 

Converse, Florence, 21. 

Conway, Katherine E., 32. 

Cook, Rev. Joseph, i. 

Cram, R. A., 8. 

Crawford, F. Marion, 5. 

Crothers, Rev. S. McC, 41. 

Cummins, Maria S., 30, 53. 

Curtis, Alice T., 17. 

Curtis, G. W., and Burrill, 34, 46. 

Cushman, Charlotte, 36. 

Dana, R. H., 8; R. H., 2d., 5. 

Deland, Margaret W., 10, ti, 12, 28. 

Derby, G. H. ("John Phoenix"), 47. 

Dexter, Morton, 25. 

Dole, Rev. C. F., 34; N. H., 34. 

Drake, F. S., S. A., and S. G., 32, 33. 

Dresser, Horatio W., 27. 

Dwight, John S., 15, 22, 34. 

Edes, H. H., 36. 



Eliot, C. W., 42. 

Eliot, John, 30, 31. 

Eliot, Samuel, 18. 

Elliott, Maud, 5. 

Elson, Arthur, 7; L. C, 6. 

Emerson, R. W., 34. 37. 43. 44- 

Fabens, J. W., 5 . 

Fall, C. G., 25. 

Felt, Rev. J. B., 50. 

Felton, C. C, 42. 

Fiske, John, 37. 

Foote, Rev. H. W., 18. 

Ford, W. C, 21. 

French, Allen, 47. 

Frothingham, Ellen, 26; Eugenia B., 6; 

N.L., 3S;0. B., 24;R.,35. 
Fuller, Anna, 26. 
Fuller, Margaret, 21, 34, 37, 47. 
Garrison, W. L., 31, 32. 
Oilman, Rev. Samuel, 41. 
Goodell, A. C, 51. 
Gordon, Rev. G. A., 23. 
Grant, Judge Robert, 28, 29. 
Greene, Nathaniel, 9. 
Greenslet, Ferris, 28. 
Griffis, W. E., 29. 
Guild, Curtis, Sr., 10. 
Guiney, Louise L, 14. 
Hale, E. E., i, 30, 31; E. E., Jr., 31; Lucre- 

tia, 17, 31. 
Harbour, J. L., 30. 

Haynes, H. W., 5. [49, 51, 53- 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 14, 34, 44, 45, 48. 
Higginson, T. W., 40, and Mary, P.T., 41. 
Hill, A. S., 18. 
Hillard, G. S., 14, 15, 55, 
Hoar, Judge E. R., 47. 
Hoar, G. F., 47. 
Hoar, Samuel, 47. 

Holmes, O. W., 5, 54; Judge O. W., 5. 
Howe, Julia Ward, 5, 8, 10. 
Howe, M. A. DeW., 18. 
Howells, W. D., 5, 12, 26, 40. 
Hudson, Frederic, 46. 
Hunnewell, J. F., 5. 
Hutchinson, Anne, 20. 
Jackson, E. P., 30. 
Jackson, Francis, 21. 
Jennison, Lucy W., 26. 
Johnson, Rev. Samuel, 52. 
Kimball, Hannah P., 26. 
King, Basil, 40. 
King, Rev. T. S., 21, 36. 
Ladd, Anna C, 27. 
Lander, Sarah W., 51. 
Lane, Anna (Eichberg), 25. 
Larcom, Lucy, 53. 
Lathrop, G. P., and Rose, 7, 45. 
Lawrence, William, 26. 
Lindsey, William, 29. 
Linton, W. J., 47. 
Lloyd, H. D., 4. 
Lodge, H. C, 23. 
Long, J. D., II. 

Longfellow, H W., 37, 38; Samuel, 38. 
Loring, G. B., 50. 
Lothrop, Harriet M., 24, 45. 



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INDEX 



Lowell, A. L., 24, 42, 56. 

Lowell, Amy, 56. 

Lowell, E. J., 24, 25. 

Lowell, Judge F. C, 5. 

Lowell, J. R., 3g; Maria (White), 40. 

Lowell, Percival, 16. 

Lunt, George, and Adeline T., 15, 16. 

Mann, Horace, 16. 

Martineau, Harriet, 21. 

Mason, Ellen F., 7. 

Mason, Lowell, 14. 

Mather, Nathaniel, 49. 

Mathers, The, tomb of, 18, 19. 

Mead, E. D., and Lucia T., 55. 

Merwin, H. C, 16. 

Merwin, Samuel, 47. 

Moore, G. F., 28. 

Morse, E. S., 52. 

Morse, Jedidiah, 35; S. F. B., 35, 36. 

Morse, John T., Jr., 28. 

Motley, J. L., i, 7, 8. 

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 29. 

Norton, C. E., 39, 41; Rev. A., 41, 42. 

Ober, F. A., 54. 

Olmsted, F. L., 55. 

Orcutt, W. D., 26. 

O'Reilly, J. B., 23, 35- 

Otis, H. G., 20. 

Palfrey, J. G., 8, 12, 41; Sarah H.,41. 

Palmer, G. H., and Alice F., 42 

Parker, Rev. Theodore, 34, 35. 

Parkman, Francis, 7, 8. 

Parsons, Dr. T. W., 16. 

Peabody, Rev. A. P., 42. 

Peabody, Elizabeth P., 14, 16, 21, 34. 

Peabody, Josephine P., 39. 

Peabody, Mary, 16, 21. 

Peabody, Dr. Nathaniel, 16, 21. 

Peabody, Sophia, 16, 21, 49. 

Peirce, Benjamin, 50. 

Perkins, C. C, 7; F. B., 30. 

Perry, Bliss, 39. 

Perry, T. S., and Lilla C, 24. 

Phillips, S. C, 50. 

Phillips Wendell, 7, 21. 

Pickering, John, 51. 

Poe, Edgar Allan, 22. 

Poole, W. F., 50. 

Porter, Charlotte, 17. 

Porter, Eleanor H., 42. 

Prescott, W. H., 3, 49. 

Prince, Helen C, 8. 

Quincy, Edmund, 3. 

Quincy, Josiah (d. 1864), 2, 3; Josiah (d. 

1882), 2. 
Quincy, Josiah P., 17. 
Rantoul, Robert, 54. 
Reed, Edwin, 27, 28. 
Reed, Helen L., 24, 26. 
Rhodes, J. F., 5. 
Riedesel, Baroness, 39. 
Ripley, Rev. Ezra, 43. 
Robinson, Edith, 4. 
Roche, J. J., 28. 
Ropes, J. C, 12. 
Rowson, Susanna, 21. 
Sanborn, F. B., 46. 
Sargent, C. S., 56. 
Sargent, Epes, 33. 



Sargent, Mrs. J. T., 8. 

Savage, Rev. M. J., 27; P. H., 4, 27. 

Sawyer, W. L., 29. 

Schaff, Morris, 41. 

Schouler, James, 22. 

Scudder, H. E., 40; Vida D., 28. 

Sears, Clara E., 4. 

Slafter, Rev. E. F., 26, 27. 

Sparks, Jared, 16, 38, 42. 

SpofiFord, Harriet P., 19. 

Sprague, C. J., 24, 25, 29. 

Stanwood, Edward, 56. 

Stevens, B. F., 15. 

Stimson. F. J., 25. 

Storey, Moorfield, 28. 

Story, W. W., 52. 

Stowe, Harriet B., 19, 20. 

Sullivan, T. R., 28. 

Sumner, Charles, 16. 

Swett, Col. Samuel, 16. 

Swift, Lindsay, iv. 

Thaxter, A. W., 10. 

Thaxter, Celia, 15. 

Thayer, W. R., 40. 

Thompson, B., Count Rumford, 19, 50, 

Thoreau, H. D., 45. 

Ticknor, Caroline, 35; George, 2,3. 

Towle, G. M., 55. 

Train, Elizabeth P., 24. 

Trine, R. W., 29. 

Trowbridge, J. T., 56. 

True, J. P., 32. 

Tuttle, J. H., 23. 

Upham, Rev. C. W., 50. 

Upham, Grace LeB., 24. 

Very, Jones, and Lydia L. A., 51. 

Vincent, L. H., 27. 

Walcott, C. H., 47. 

Walker, F. A., 5. 

Walker, James, 35. 

Ward, Elizabeth S.F., 56. 

Ward, Rev. J. H., 32, 55- 

Ward, May A., 27. 

Warren, Cornelia, 10, 

Waters, Clara C, 6. 

Wells, Kate G., 25, 26. 

Wendell, Barrett, 24. 

Wesselhoeft, Elizabeth F., 26. 

Wheeler, W. A., 32. 

Wheelwright, J. T., 12, 

Whipple, E. P., 14. 

White, Eliza O., 56. 

Whiting, Lilian, 22. 

Whitmore, W. H., 29. 

Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T., 12. 

Whitney, Anne, 6, 12. 

Whitrier, J. G., 10, 54. 

Willard, A. R., 26. 

Williams, Dr. Harold, 6. 

Williams, Roger, 50. 

Winslow, Mrs. Erving, 27. 

Winslow, Helen M., 32. 

Winsor, Justin, 29, 30. 

Winthrop, R. C, 4, 24; Winthrop, R. C, 

Jr., 7- 
Wood, Henry, 32. 
Woodberry, G, E., 54. 
Woods, R. A., 30. 
Worcester, J. E., 38, 51. 



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